Motivational Quotes

Action

The view only changes for the lead dog.

- Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

Best Quotes about Action

1.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

2.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

3.

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

Eliot, George

4.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

5.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

6.

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

7.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

8.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

9.

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

10.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

11.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

12.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

13.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

14.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

15.

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

16.

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

17.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

18.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

20.

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

21.

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

Mann, Horace

22.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

23.

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

24.

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

Wanamaker, John

25.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

26.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

27.

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.

28.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

29.

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

Company, Lanes

30.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

31.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

32.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

33.

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

34.

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

Robbins, Anthony

35.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

36.

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

37.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

38.

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.

39.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

40.

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

41.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

46.

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

Brown, Les

47.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

48.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

49.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

50.

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

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