Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Italian

Best Quotes about Action

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Ross, Percy

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

10.

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

Howells, William Dean

11.

Do it now. Then it's done.

12.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

13.

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

14.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

15.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

17.

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

Einstein, Albert

18.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

19.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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

21.

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

22.

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

Edwards, Edward

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

25.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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

32.

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

Courteline, Georges

33.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

34.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

35.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

36.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

37.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

38.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

39.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

40.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

41.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

42.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

43.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion