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

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Ennius, Quintus

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

10.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

11.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

12.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

13.

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

14.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

15.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

16.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

17.

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

18.

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

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Cass, Lewis

27.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

28.

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

Smith, Liz

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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

30.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Crow, Trammell

33.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

34.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

35.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

36.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

37.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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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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

40.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

41.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

43.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

44.

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

Troward, Thomas

45.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

46.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

48.

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.

49.

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

50.

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.