Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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.

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

Holcomb, John H.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

16.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

17.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

18.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

19.

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

Quarles, Francis

20.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

21.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

22.

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

Proverb, Chinese

23.

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

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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

25.

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

Courteline, Georges

26.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

27.

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

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

30.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

31.

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

Ovid

32.

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.

33.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

35.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

36.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

38.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

39.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

41.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

42.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

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

Smiles, Samuel

44.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

47.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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