Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Troward, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

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

Troward, Thomas

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

Act, don't react!

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

10.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

11.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

12.

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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Angelou, Maya

17.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

19.

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

Proverb, Italian

20.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

21.

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

Proverb, American

22.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

24.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

25.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

26.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

27.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

30.

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

31.

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

Company, Lanes

32.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

33.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

34.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

35.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Proverb, Ibo

37.

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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

39.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

40.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

42.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

43.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

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

45.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

46.

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

Bible

47.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

48.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

49.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

50.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman