Motivational Quotes

Action

Act, don't react!

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Best Quotes about Action

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bible

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

Crow, Trammell

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 successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

11.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

13.

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

14.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

15.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

16.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

17.

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

18.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

19.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

21.

Do it now. Then it's done.

22.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

23.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

24.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

25.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

27.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

28.

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

29.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

30.

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

Proverb, German

31.

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

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.

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

34.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

35.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.

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

41.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

42.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

43.

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

Proverb, Chinese

44.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

45.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

48.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

49.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

50.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.