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

1.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

2.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

3.

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

Lowenstein, John

4.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

5.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

6.

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

Angelou, Maya

7.

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

8.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

9.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

10.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

12.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, German

15.

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

Bowkett, Chris

16.

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

17.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

18.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

19.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

21.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

22.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

23.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

24.

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

Proverb, French

25.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

26.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

27.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

28.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

29.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

30.

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

Mann, Horace

31.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

32.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

33.

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

Hubbard, Kin

34.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

35.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

36.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

37.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

38.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

39.

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

Bible

40.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

41.

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

Einstein, Albert

42.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

43.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

44.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

46.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

47.

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

Saunders

48.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

49.

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

50.

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