Motivational Quotes

Action

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

- Greene, Robert

Best Quotes about Action

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Macdonald, George

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Hubbard, Kin

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

Bible

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

39.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

40.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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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

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer