Motivational Quotes

Action

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

- Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Best Quotes about Action

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Aurelius, Marcus

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

11.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

12.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

13.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

14.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

15.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

17.

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

Bible

18.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

19.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

20.

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

Greene, Robert

21.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

22.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

23.

Do it now. Then it's done.

24.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

25.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

26.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

27.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

28.

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

Mencken, H. L.

29.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

30.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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

33.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

35.

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

Iacocca, Lee

36.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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

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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

41.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston