Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

1.

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.

2.

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

Proverb, English

3.

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

Plutarch

4.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

5.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

6.

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

7.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

8.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

9.

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

10.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

11.

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

Wanamaker, John

12.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

13.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

14.

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

15.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

16.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

17.

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.

18.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

19.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

20.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

21.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

22.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

23.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

24.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

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

Bowkett, Chris

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

28.

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

Ovid

29.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

30.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

31.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

32.

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

Smith, Sydney

33.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

34.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

35.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

36.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

37.

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

Liter, James

38.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

39.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

40.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

41.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

42.

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

43.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

44.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

45.

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

46.

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

Riley, Pat