Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Carrel, Alexis

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Sandburg, Carl

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Holtz, Lou

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Dyer, Wayne

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

18.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

19.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

21.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

25.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

30.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

31.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

32.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

33.

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

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Ross, Percy

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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

43.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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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.

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

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