Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Wattles, Wallace D.

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Evans, Richard L.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

The only way to start is to start.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Grant, Heber J.

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

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

10.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

11.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

12.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

13.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

14.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

16.

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

19.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gaulle, Charles De

21.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

22.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

23.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Einstein, Albert

25.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

26.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

28.

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

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

30.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

32.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

35.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

38.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

40.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

Saunders

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often