Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Holtz, Lou

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

10.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

11.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

12.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

13.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

14.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

15.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

16.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

20.

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

21.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

22.

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

Auerbach, Red

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Horace

26.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

27.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

28.

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.

29.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

30.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

31.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

32.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

33.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

34.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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

40.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

41.

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

Ovid

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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If you want to get along, go along.