Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Ross, Percy

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Cass, Lewis

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

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

19.

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

Proverb, Italian

20.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Holcomb, John H.

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

35.

Do it now. Then it's done.

36.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Buffett, Warren

40.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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.

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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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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo