Motivational Quotes

Action

I didn't think; I experimented.

- Roentgen, Wilhelm

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Auerbach, Red

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Gide, Andre

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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

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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

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Marley, Bob

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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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.

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Bible

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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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

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Eliot, George

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.