Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Action

Be both the gardener and the rose.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

10.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

11.

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

12.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

13.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Aristotle

18.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

21.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

22.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

24.

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

Ennius, Quintus

25.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

26.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

27.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

James, William

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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

30.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Picasso, Pablo

32.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

33.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

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.

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

36.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

38.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

40.

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

Wanamaker, John

41.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis