Motivational Quotes

Action

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

- Ross, Percy

Best Quotes about Action

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Jacobs, Joseph

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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

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

Bible

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Proverb, German

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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 wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

19.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

27.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

29.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

30.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

31.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

32.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

33.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

34.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

37.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

38.

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

Smiles, Samuel

39.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

40.

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

Wanamaker, John

41.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

43.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

44.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

45.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Auerbach, Red

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

50.

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman