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

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Clarke, James Freeman

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Wanamaker, John

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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

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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