Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

Marley, Bob

11.

Act, don't react!

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

15.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

17.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

18.

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

19.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

20.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

22.

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

23.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

24.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

25.

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

27.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

28.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

29.

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

30.

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

Croce, Benedetto

31.

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

Proverb, Chinese

32.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

33.

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

Proverb, Irish

34.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

35.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Mother Teresa

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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The only way to start is to start.