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

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

Macdonald, George

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

Milea, Jinx

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

Green, Dennis

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Schmidt, Helmut

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

10.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

11.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

12.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

14.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

19.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

20.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

21.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

22.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

24.

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

Proverb, Italian

25.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

26.

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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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

28.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Mann, Horace

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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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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

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

39.

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

Bible

40.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

42.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

43.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

44.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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.

49.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton