Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

1.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

2.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

3.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

4.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

5.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

6.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

7.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

8.

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

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

11.

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

Einstein, Albert

12.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

13.

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

14.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

15.

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

Gerstner, Lou

16.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

17.

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

Mann, Horace

18.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

19.

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

20.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

21.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

22.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

23.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

24.

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

Aristotle

25.

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

Riley, Pat

26.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

27.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

28.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

29.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

30.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

31.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

35.

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.

36.

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

Sandburg, Carl

37.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

38.

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

Wilde, Oscar

39.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

40.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

41.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

42.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb, Chinese

45.

Act, don't react!

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