Motivational Quotes

Action

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

- Iacocca, Lee

Best Quotes about Action

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

10.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

11.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

12.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

14.

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

15.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

16.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

17.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

18.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

19.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

20.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

21.

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

Levin, James

22.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

23.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

25.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

26.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

27.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

28.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

29.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

30.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

31.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

32.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

33.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

34.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

35.

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

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

39.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

40.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

41.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

42.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

43.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

44.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

45.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

46.

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga