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

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

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Lu Xun

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

Eliot, George

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Smiles, Samuel

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

10.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

11.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

13.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

14.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

15.

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

16.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

18.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Proverb, German

20.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

22.

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

Buffett, Warren

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

24.

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

25.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

27.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

30.

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

Hubbard, Kin

31.

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

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

Warford, Rita

33.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

34.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

35.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Wanamaker, John

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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

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

41.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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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.

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

46.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre