Motivational Quotes

Action

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Howells, William Dean

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Iacocca, Lee

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

10.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

11.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

12.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

13.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

14.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

18.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

19.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

20.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

21.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

24.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

28.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

29.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

30.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

31.

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

Crow, Trammell

32.

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

33.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

34.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

35.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

36.

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

37.

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

Edwards, Edward

38.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

39.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

40.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

41.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

42.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

43.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

44.

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

45.

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

46.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.