Motivational Quotes

Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

- Noll, Chuck

Best Quotes about Action

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

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Lord, Shirley

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Rogers, Will

10.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

11.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

12.

Act, don't react!

13.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

14.

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

James, William

15.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

16.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

17.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

18.

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

Shakespeare, William

19.

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

20.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

21.

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

Pauling, Linus

22.

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.

23.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

24.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

25.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

26.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

27.

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

Warford, Rita

28.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

29.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

30.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

31.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

32.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

33.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

34.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

35.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

36.

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

Bible

37.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

39.

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

40.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

41.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

42.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

43.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

44.

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

45.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

46.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

47.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

48.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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What you are will show in what you do.