Motivational Quotes

Action

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Action

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Green, Dennis

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Ovid

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

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Hasselhoff, David

10.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

11.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

12.

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

Proverb, Italian

13.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

14.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

17.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

18.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

19.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

25.

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

Proverb, American

26.

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

27.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

28.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

29.

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

30.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

33.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

36.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

37.

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

Lu Xun

38.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

39.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

40.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

41.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

42.

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

Auerbach, Red

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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.

44.

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

45.

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

46.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cass, Lewis

48.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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