Motivational Quotes

Action

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Action

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

10.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

12.

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

Proverb, American

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

17.

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

Bowkett, Chris

18.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.