Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Hasselhoff, David

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

10.

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

11.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

12.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

13.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

15.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

18.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

19.

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

20.

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

Eliot, George

21.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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

24.

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

25.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

26.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

27.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

28.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

29.

Do it now. Then it's done.

30.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

31.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

32.

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

Rogers, Will

33.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

35.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

36.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

38.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

39.

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

Milne, A. A.

40.

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

Quarles, Francis

41.

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

Green, Dennis

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

45.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

46.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

47.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

48.

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

Proverb, Irish

49.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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.