Motivational Quotes

Action

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Action

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

Einstein, Albert

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

10.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

12.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

13.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

14.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

15.

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

Shirley, James

16.

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

17.

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.

18.

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

Milne, A. A.

19.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

20.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

21.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

22.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

23.

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

24.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

25.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

26.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

27.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

28.

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

29.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

30.

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

Gide, Andre

31.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

32.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

33.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

34.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Lord, Shirley

40.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

41.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

42.

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

43.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

44.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

46.

The only way to start is to start.

47.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic