Motivational Quotes

Action

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Best Quotes about Action

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

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

Edwards, Edward

10.

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

11.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

12.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Lincoln, Abraham

14.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

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

Proverb, American

16.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

17.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

18.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

19.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

20.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

21.

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

Troward, Thomas

22.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

23.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

24.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

25.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

26.

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

Eliot, George

27.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

28.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

29.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

30.

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

31.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

32.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

33.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

34.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

35.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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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

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

43.

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

Aikman, Leo

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.