Motivational Quotes

Action

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Action

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

Ovid

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

Smiles, Samuel

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Liter, James

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

Schmidt, Helmut

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Curcio, Joan L.

10.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

11.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

12.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

13.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

14.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

15.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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

17.

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.

18.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

Lord, Shirley

20.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

21.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

22.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

23.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

24.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

28.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

31.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

33.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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

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The only way to start is to start.

36.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

37.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Action is character.

40.

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

Viscott, David

41.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Irish

44.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

45.

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 to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.