Motivational Quotes

Action

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

Eliot, George

2.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

3.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

4.

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

Proverb, American

5.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

6.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

7.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

8.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

9.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

10.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

11.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

12.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

13.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

14.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

15.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

16.

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

Smith, Liz

17.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

18.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

19.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

20.

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

Lord, Shirley

21.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

22.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

23.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

24.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

25.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

26.

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

James, William

27.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

28.

Action is character.

29.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

30.

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

Shirley, James

31.

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

32.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

33.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

34.

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

35.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

36.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

37.

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

38.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

39.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

40.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

41.

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