Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Jacobs, Joseph

Best Quotes about Action

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

10.

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

Saunders

11.

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 will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Croce, Benedetto

27.

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

Lu Xun

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

31.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

32.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

33.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

34.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

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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

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

41.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

45.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas