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

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

Liter, James

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

Proverb, Chinese

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Rogers, Will

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

10.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Plutarch

12.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

13.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

14.

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

15.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

16.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

17.

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

Rohn, Jim

18.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

19.

Act, don't react!

20.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

21.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

22.

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

23.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

24.

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

25.

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

Dyer, Wayne

26.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

27.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

28.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

29.

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

30.

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

31.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

32.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

33.

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

34.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

35.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

37.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

38.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

39.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

40.

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

Horace

41.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

43.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

44.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

45.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

46.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.