Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Action

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Croce, Benedetto

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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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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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Lord, Shirley

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Marley, Bob

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

Holtz, Lou

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

33.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

34.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Proverb, American

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

Roger, John

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

Perot, H. Ross