Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hutcheson, Francis

Best Quotes about Action

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

Action is character.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

11.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

12.

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

Roger, John

13.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

15.

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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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.

17.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

18.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

19.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

20.

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.

21.

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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

23.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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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

25.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

Do it now. Then it's done.

27.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

28.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

29.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

30.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

32.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

33.

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

34.

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

Auerbach, Red

35.

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

Proverb, Ibo

36.

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

Lu Xun

37.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

39.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

40.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

41.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Act, don't react!