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

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Holtz, Lou

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.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Milne, A. A.

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Proverb, Chinese

22.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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

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Act, don't react!

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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 become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, American

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Mother Teresa

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

40.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

41.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Bible

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Levi, Peter

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.