Motivational Quotes

Action

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Best Quotes about Action

1.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

2.

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

3.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

4.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

5.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

6.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

7.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

8.

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

9.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

10.

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

Levi, Peter

11.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

12.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

15.

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

16.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

17.

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

18.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

19.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

21.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

22.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

23.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

24.

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

25.

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

Mann, Horace

26.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

27.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

28.

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

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.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

31.

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

32.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

33.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

34.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

35.

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

36.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

37.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

38.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

39.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

40.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

41.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.