Motivational Quotes

Action

We will not know unless we begin.

- Zinn, Howard

Best Quotes about Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Galsworthy, John

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

10.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

11.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

12.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

13.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

14.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

17.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Ennius, Quintus

19.

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.

20.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

21.

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

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

25.

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

Hasselhoff, David

26.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

27.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

28.

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

29.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

31.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

33.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

34.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

35.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

37.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

38.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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.

40.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

41.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

42.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

45.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

46.

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

Dyer, Wayne

47.

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

48.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

49.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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