Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Action

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Ovid

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Holtz, Lou

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Act, don't react!

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Proverb, Italian

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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.

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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Smith, Sydney

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

Ross, Percy