Motivational Quotes

Action

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

- Howells, William Dean

Best Quotes about Action

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

10.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

11.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

12.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

13.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

14.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

18.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

19.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

20.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

21.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

22.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

25.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

26.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

27.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

28.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

29.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

30.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

31.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

32.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

33.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

34.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

38.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

40.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

42.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

43.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

44.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

46.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

48.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

49.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer