Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Action

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

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

11.

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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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

13.

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

14.

One of the marks of a 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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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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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Plutarch

19.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

20.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

21.

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

22.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

24.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

25.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

28.

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

29.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

30.

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

James, William

31.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

32.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

33.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

36.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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

38.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

39.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

40.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.