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

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

13.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

14.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

15.

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

Ziglar, Zig

16.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

17.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

18.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Robbins, Anthony

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

25.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

26.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

29.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

30.

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

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

32.

Action is character.

33.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

34.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

35.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

36.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

37.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

38.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

39.

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

40.

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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

42.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

43.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

44.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

45.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

47.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

49.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John