Motivational Quotes

Action

Act, don't react!

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Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

2.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

3.

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

Arendt, Hannah

4.

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

Proverb, Ibo

5.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

6.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

7.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

8.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.

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

Warford, Rita

10.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

11.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

13.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

14.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

15.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

16.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

17.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

18.

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

Bowkett, Chris

19.

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

20.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

21.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.

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

Hazlitt, William

23.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

24.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

25.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

26.

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

Bible

27.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

28.

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

Eliot, George

29.

One of the marks of a 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

30.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

31.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

32.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

33.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

34.

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

Allen, Loius A.

35.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

36.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

37.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

38.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

39.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

41.

The only way to start is to start.

42.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

47.

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

48.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

49.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

50.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese