Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

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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

2.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

3.

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

4.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

5.

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

Sher, Barbara

6.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

7.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

8.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

9.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

10.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

11.

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

12.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

13.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

14.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

15.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

16.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

17.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

18.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

20.

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

21.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

22.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

23.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

28.

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

Marley, Bob

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

33.

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

34.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

35.

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

Eliot, George

36.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

37.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

38.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

40.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

41.

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

42.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

43.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

44.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

45.

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

Aristotle

46.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

47.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

48.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

49.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

50.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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