Motivational Quotes

Action

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Action

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

10.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

11.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

12.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

13.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

14.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

17.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

18.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

19.

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

20.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

21.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

22.

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

Proverb, French

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

27.

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

Marley, Bob

28.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

29.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

30.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

31.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

32.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

33.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

34.

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

Bible

35.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

36.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

37.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

38.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

39.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

40.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

41.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

42.

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

Levi, Peter

43.

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

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

49.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

50.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.