Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Macdonald, George

Best Quotes about Action

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Einstein, Albert

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

10.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

11.

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

12.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

13.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

14.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

15.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

16.

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

Bowkett, Chris

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

20.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

21.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

23.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

24.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

25.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

Action is character.

27.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

28.

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

29.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

30.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

32.

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.

33.

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.

34.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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

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

Eliot, George

37.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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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

39.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

40.

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

James, William

41.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

42.

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