Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Action

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Wordsworth, William

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Bible

10.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

11.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

12.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

13.

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.

14.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

15.

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

Milne, A. A.

16.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

17.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

18.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

19.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

20.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

21.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

22.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

23.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

24.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

25.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

26.

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

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

Wanamaker, John

28.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

29.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

30.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

31.

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

32.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

33.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

35.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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

Proverb, Italian

38.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

39.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

40.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

41.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Proverb, Chinese

43.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

44.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

45.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

46.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

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.

48.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og