Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Smiles, Samuel

Best Quotes about Action

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

10.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

11.

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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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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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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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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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Einstein, Albert

18.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Sher, Barbara

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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 condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Howells, William Dean

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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Smiles, Samuel

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis