Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Action

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

The best way to get something done is to begin.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Ziglar, Zig

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Milea, Jinx

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

10.

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

Confucius

11.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

12.

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

13.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

14.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

18.

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

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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

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

21.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

22.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

23.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

24.

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

Mother Teresa

26.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

29.

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

Einstein, Albert

30.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

31.

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

32.

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

33.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

34.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

35.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

37.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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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

40.

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

Company, Lanes

41.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

42.

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

Iacocca, Lee

43.

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

44.

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

45.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

49.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

50.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French