Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Howells, William Dean

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Batt, Al

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

Proverb, Chinese

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

10.

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

11.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

12.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

13.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

14.

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

Proverb

15.

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

Proverb, French

16.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

17.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

18.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

19.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

20.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

21.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

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

Ennius, Quintus

25.

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

Sher, Barbara

26.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

27.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

28.

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

Troward, Thomas

29.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

30.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

31.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

32.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

34.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

35.

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

36.

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

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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

38.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

39.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

40.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

41.

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

Shakespeare, William

42.

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

43.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

44.

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

45.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

46.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

47.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

48.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

49.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.