Motivational Quotes

Action

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Bible

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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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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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, American

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

Howells, William Dean

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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

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Ovid

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham