Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Action

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Holtz, Lou

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Einstein, Albert

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Edwards, Edward

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

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De