Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

10.

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

Sher, Barbara

11.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

12.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

13.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Mann, Horace

15.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

16.

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

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

21.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

22.

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

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

Horace

24.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

25.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

26.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

27.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

28.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

29.

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

30.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

31.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

32.

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

Angelou, Maya

33.

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

Plutarch

34.

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

35.

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

40.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

41.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be both the gardener and the rose.