Motivational Quotes

Action

You will never win if you never begin.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Greene, Robert

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

Einstein, Albert

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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.

20.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Saunders

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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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

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

Hubbard, Kin