Motivational Quotes

Action

The greatest step is out the door.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Eliot, George

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Milea, Jinx

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

10.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

11.

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

Iacocca, Lee

12.

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

Einstein, Albert

13.

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

14.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

17.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Bible

19.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

20.

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

Bible

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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

22.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

23.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

24.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

26.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

27.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

28.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

33.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

34.

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

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Act, don't react!

37.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

40.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

41.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

42.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

43.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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.

45.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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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

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus