Motivational Quotes

Action

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Action

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Mencken, H. L.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

10.

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

11.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

12.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

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

Aristotle

14.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

17.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

18.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

19.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

20.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

21.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

22.

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

23.

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

Iacocca, Lee

24.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

25.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

26.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

27.

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

Horace

28.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

29.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

30.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

31.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

32.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

33.

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

Ross, Percy

34.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

35.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

36.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

37.

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

Allen, Loius A.

38.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

39.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

40.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

41.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

42.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

43.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

44.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

45.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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