Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Action

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Saunders

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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.

11.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

12.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

13.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

14.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

15.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

17.

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

Wanamaker, John

18.

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

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

20.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

21.

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

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

Curcio, Joan L.

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

24.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

26.

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

27.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

30.

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

Liter, James

31.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

32.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

33.

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.

34.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

35.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

39.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

43.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

44.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

45.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

46.

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

Mann, Horace

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

49.

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

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George