Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Milea, Jinx

Best Quotes about Action

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Milea, Jinx

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

10.

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

Lu Xun

11.

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

12.

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

Eliot, George

13.

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

14.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

15.

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.

16.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

17.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

18.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

22.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

23.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

24.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

25.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

26.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

27.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

28.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

29.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

30.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

32.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

33.

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

Proverb, Irish

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

35.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

36.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

37.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

38.

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

Proverb, American

39.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

40.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

48.

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

Courteline, Georges

49.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee