Motivational Quotes

Action

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Action

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

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Auerbach, Red

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

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

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Crow, Trammell

12.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Rogers, Will

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

Clarke, James Freeman

16.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

17.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

18.

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

Proverb, Italian

19.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

20.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

21.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

22.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lowenstein, John

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

25.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

26.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

27.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

28.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

29.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

30.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

31.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

32.

Act, don't react!

33.

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.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

35.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Macdonald, George