Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Troward, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

Action is character.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

Wanamaker, John

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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.

10.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

11.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

12.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

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The only way to start is to start.

14.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

15.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

16.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

17.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

18.

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

Green, Dennis

19.

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

Mother Teresa

20.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

21.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

25.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

27.

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

Batt, Al

28.

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

29.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

30.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

31.

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

James, William

32.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

33.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

34.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

35.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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

37.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

38.

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

39.

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

Proverb, American

40.

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

James, William

41.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.