Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

3.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

4.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

5.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

6.

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

7.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

8.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

9.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

10.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

11.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

12.

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

Confucius

13.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

14.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

15.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

16.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

17.

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

Wanamaker, John

18.

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

Riley, Pat

19.

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

James, William

20.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

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

23.

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

Arendt, Hannah

24.

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

Mother Teresa

25.

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

Plutarch

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

29.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

30.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

31.

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

Proverb, Ibo

32.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

33.

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

34.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

35.

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

36.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

38.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

39.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

40.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

41.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

42.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur