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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
Action Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Action

1.
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
Aristotle

2.
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.
Horace

3.
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

4.
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert

5.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
James, William

6.
All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]
Bible

7.
Many are called but few get up.
Herford, Oliver

8.
If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
Maharshi, Ramana

9.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Stone, W. Clement

10.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

11.
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Carlyle, Thomas

12.
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Disraeli, Benjamin

13.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Drucker, Peter F.

14.
Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.
Carrel, Alexis

15.
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

16.
Two-thirds of promotion is motion

17.
Act, don't react!

18.
When deeds speak, words are nothing.
Proverb, African

19.
The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.
Allen, Loius A.

20.
My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

21.
Either move or be moved.
Powell, Colin

22.
We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Schuller, Robert H.

24.
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.

25.
Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.
Segal, Ronald

26.
There is a tendency for things to right themselves.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.
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

28.
Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.
Iacocca, Lee

29.
You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.
Ziglar, Zig

30.
Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
Sophocles

31.
Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.
Evans, Richard L.

32.
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
Marden, Orison Swett

33.
Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
Wattles, Wallace D.

34.
People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

35.
Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

36.
Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
Milne, A. A.

37.
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

38.
If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

39.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Whitehead, Alfred North

40.
Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.
Bevan, Aneurin

41.
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

42.
Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

43.
Action is the real measure of intelligence.
Hill, Napoleon

44.
Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

45.
Never mind your happiness; do your duty.
Durant, William J.

46.
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
South, Bishop Robert

47.
The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.
Rohn, Jim

48.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Jerome, St.

49.
You have to make it happen.
Greene, Joe

50.
All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.
Bible


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