Motivational Quotes

Action

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

- Rowan, Carl

Best Quotes about Action

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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.

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

Eliot, George

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

10.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

16.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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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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

19.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

20.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Plutarch

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

26.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

27.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

28.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

29.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

30.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

31.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

32.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Bergson, Henri L.

35.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

36.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Bible

38.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Lowenstein, John

44.

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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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

46.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

Wilde, Oscar

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon