Motivational Quotes

Action

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Action

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Company, Lanes

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

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

Curcio, Joan L.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

10.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

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

12.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

13.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

14.

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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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

16.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

17.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

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

Crow, Trammell

20.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

21.

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Eliot, George

24.

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

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

26.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

27.

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

28.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Heine, Heinrich

30.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

31.

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

32.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

33.

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

Hasselhoff, David

34.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

35.

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

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

37.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

38.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

42.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

43.

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

Bible

44.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

45.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

48.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

49.

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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony