Motivational Quotes

Action

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

- Hubbard, Elbert

Best Quotes about Action

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

Hubbard, Kin

No rules for success will work if you don't.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Ibo

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, 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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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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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

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Bible

25.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Crow, Trammell

30.

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

31.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

32.

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

Edwards, Edward

33.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

34.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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The only way to start is to start.

36.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

40.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese