Motivational Quotes

Action

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cass, Lewis

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

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Lowenstein, John

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

Bergson, Henri L.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Bible

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Saunders

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Graffiti

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

Bible

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

Hill, Napoleon

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Howells, William Dean

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.