Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- South, Bishop Robert

Best Quotes about Action

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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

Bible

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

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

10.

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

11.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Crow, Trammell

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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

14.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

15.

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

Eliot, George

16.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

17.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

18.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

19.

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

20.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

21.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

22.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

24.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

25.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

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

27.

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

Hasselhoff, David

28.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

29.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

30.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Bible

32.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

33.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

34.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

36.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

37.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

39.

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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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

41.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

42.

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

Hubbard, Kin

43.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

44.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

45.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

46.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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.