Motivational Quotes

Action

Many have too much, but none enough.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Action

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

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

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schmidt, Helmut

10.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

11.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

12.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

14.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

15.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

16.

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

17.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

18.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

19.

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

20.

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

21.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

23.

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

24.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

26.

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

Auerbach, Red

27.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

28.

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

29.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

30.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

32.

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

33.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

34.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

35.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

36.

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

Eliot, George

37.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

38.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

40.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

41.

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

Robbins, Anthony

42.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

43.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

44.

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

Holtz, Lou

45.

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

46.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

47.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

48.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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I didn't think; I experimented.