Motivational Quotes

Action

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Evans, Richard L.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

10.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

14.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

15.

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

Carrel, Alexis

16.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

17.

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

18.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

19.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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.

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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

25.

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

Green, Dennis

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

Smith, Sydney

27.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

29.

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

Lowenstein, John

30.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

31.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

32.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

35.

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

39.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

43.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.