Motivational Quotes

Action

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Action

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.

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

Green, Dennis

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

12.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Holtz, Lou

14.

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

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

Howells, William Dean

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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Bible

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

28.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

31.

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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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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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.

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

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Saying, Zen

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.