Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Action

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Proverb, Chinese

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Schmidt, Helmut

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

10.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

11.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

12.

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

13.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

14.

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

15.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

16.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

17.

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

Horace

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

20.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

21.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

22.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

23.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

24.

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

25.

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

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

28.

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

29.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

30.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

31.

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

Bible

32.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

33.

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

Viscott, David

34.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

37.

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

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

41.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

45.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

49.

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

Proverb, Mexican

50.

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

Eliot, George