Motivational Quotes

Action

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

- Proverb, Mexican

Best Quotes about Action

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

Act, don't react!

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

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

Edwards, Edward

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Bible

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

10.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

11.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

12.

Action is character.

13.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

14.

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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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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

17.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

18.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

19.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

20.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

21.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

22.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

23.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

24.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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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

26.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

28.

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

29.

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

Bible

30.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

31.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

35.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

38.

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

Aristotle

39.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

40.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

41.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

42.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

43.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

44.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

46.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

47.

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

48.

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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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

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Do it now. Then it's done.