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

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

Buffett, Warren

No rules for success will work if you don't.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Plutarch

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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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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

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One of the marks of a 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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Holtz, Lou

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.