Motivational Quotes

Action

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Best Quotes about Action

1.

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

2.

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

Macdonald, George

3.

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.

4.

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

Levin, James

5.

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

6.

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

7.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

8.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

9.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

10.

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

Proverb, Chinese

11.

The only way to start is to start.

12.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

13.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

14.

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

Einstein, Albert

15.

I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

16.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

17.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

18.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

19.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

20.

Act, don't react!

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

24.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

25.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

26.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

27.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

28.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

29.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

30.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

31.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

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

Wanamaker, John

33.

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

34.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

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

Dyer, Wayne

36.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

37.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

39.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

40.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

41.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

42.

Action is character.

43.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

44.

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

45.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

46.

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

Horace

47.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

48.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

49.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

50.

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

Carlyle, Thomas