Motivational Quotes

Action

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

- Schwarzkopf, Norman

Best Quotes about Action

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

Galsworthy, John

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

James, William

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

12.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

13.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

14.

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

15.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

16.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

18.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

19.

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

Marley, Bob

20.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

21.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

22.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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

24.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

25.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

26.

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

27.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

28.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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

30.

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

31.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

32.

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

33.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

34.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

35.

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

Confucius

36.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

37.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

38.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

42.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

43.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

44.

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

45.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

46.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

47.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

48.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

49.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

Dyer, Wayne