Motivational Quotes

Action

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

- Inge, Dean William R.

Best Quotes about Action

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

10.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

13.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

14.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

15.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

16.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

17.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

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

Roger, John

19.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

20.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

21.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

23.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

25.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

26.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

27.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

28.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

29.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

30.

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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

32.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

33.

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

Angelou, Maya

34.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

35.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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

Sandburg, Carl

38.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

39.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

40.

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

Warford, Rita

41.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

42.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

43.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

46.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

48.

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

Bowkett, Chris

49.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham