Motivational Quotes

Action

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Proverb

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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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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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Quarles, Francis

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Green, Dennis

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Action is character.

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