Motivational Quotes

Action

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

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

Levi, Peter

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Adams, Charles Francis

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

14.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

15.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

16.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

17.

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

Sher, Barbara

18.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

19.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

21.

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

Bowkett, Chris

22.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

23.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

24.

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

Proverb, Irish

25.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

26.

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

James, William

27.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

28.

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

Aristotle

29.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

30.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

31.

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

Liter, James

32.

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

33.

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

James, William

34.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

35.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

36.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

37.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

38.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

40.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

41.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

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

Holtz, Lou

43.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

44.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

45.

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

Eliot, George

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

47.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

48.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

49.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

50.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.