Motivational Quotes

Action

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

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

Mann, Horace

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

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

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

10.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

11.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

13.

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

Saunders

14.

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

15.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

16.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

17.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

18.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

21.

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

Angelou, Maya

22.

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

23.

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

Sher, Barbara

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

25.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

26.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

29.

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

Iacocca, Lee

30.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

31.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

32.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

33.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

34.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

Proverb

39.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

40.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Schmidt, Helmut

42.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

43.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

44.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

45.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Howells, William Dean

47.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Aristotle

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German