Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

2.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

3.

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

4.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

5.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

6.

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

Proverb, French

7.

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

Proverb, Chinese

8.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

9.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

10.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

11.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

12.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

13.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

14.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

15.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

16.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

17.

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.

18.

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

Ennius, Quintus

19.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

20.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

21.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

22.

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

Confucius

23.

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

Robbins, Anthony

24.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

25.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

26.

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

27.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

32.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

33.

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

Grant, Heber J.

34.

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

Auerbach, Red

35.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

37.

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

Mencken, H. L.

38.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

39.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

40.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

41.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

42.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

43.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

44.

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

45.

Action is character.

46.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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