Motivational Quotes

Action

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Green, Dennis

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.

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

Bible

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

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

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

10.

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

11.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

12.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Ennius, Quintus

15.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

16.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

17.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

19.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

20.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

21.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

22.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

23.

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

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

25.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

26.

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

Proverb, Irish

27.

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

28.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

29.

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

30.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

31.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

32.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

33.

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

Levi, Peter

34.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

37.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

38.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

39.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

40.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

41.

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

Grant, Heber J.

42.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

44.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

45.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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

47.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

48.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

49.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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What we need is to use what we have.