Motivational Quotes

Action

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

10.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

11.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

13.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

14.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

15.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

16.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

17.

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

18.

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

Saying, Zen

19.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

20.

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

Macdonald, George

21.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

29.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

30.

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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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

32.

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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

Shirley, James

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

40.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

41.

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

Proverb, American

42.

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

Evans, Richard L.

43.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

44.

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

49.

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

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis