Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Action

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Smith, Sydney

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Balzac, Honore De

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Heine, Heinrich

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

10.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

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

Bible

12.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

13.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

14.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

15.

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

Proverb, Irish

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Einstein, Albert

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

19.

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

James, William

20.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

21.

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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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

28.

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

Green, Dennis

29.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

30.

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

31.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

33.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

34.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

37.

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

38.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

39.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

40.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

41.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

42.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

43.

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

Batt, Al

44.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

46.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Proverb, Italian

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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