Motivational Quotes

Action

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

10.

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

Eliot, George

11.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

12.

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

13.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

14.

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

15.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

16.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

17.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

18.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

19.

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

20.

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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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

23.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

24.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

25.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

26.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

28.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

29.

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

30.

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

Iacocca, Lee

31.

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

32.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

33.

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

34.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

35.

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

36.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

37.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

38.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

39.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

41.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

43.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

44.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

45.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

49.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

50.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish