Motivational Quotes

Action

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

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.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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 can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

10.

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

Smith, Liz

11.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

Crow, Trammell

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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

14.

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

15.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

16.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

17.

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

Aristotle

18.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

19.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

20.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

22.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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

24.

Action is character.

25.

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.

26.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, Chinese

29.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

30.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

31.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

32.

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

33.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

34.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

35.

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

36.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

37.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

38.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Greene, Robert

40.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

42.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

43.

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

Proverb, Irish

44.

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

45.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

46.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

50.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese