Motivational Quotes

Action

A well begun is half ended.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Action

1.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

2.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

3.

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

Ovid

4.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

5.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

6.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

7.

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

8.

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

9.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

10.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

11.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

12.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

13.

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

Ross, Percy

14.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

15.

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

Robbins, Anthony

16.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

17.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

18.

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

19.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

20.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

21.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

22.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

23.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

24.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

25.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

26.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

27.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Horace

31.

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

Auerbach, Red

32.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

33.

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

34.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

36.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

37.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

38.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

39.

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

Bowkett, Chris

40.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

43.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

44.

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

45.

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

Mother Teresa

46.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

47.

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

48.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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