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

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

Jacobs, Joseph

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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.

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

Ross, Percy

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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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

11.

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

Courteline, Georges

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

19.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

20.

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

Einstein, Albert

21.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Lowenstein, John

25.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

26.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

27.

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

Proverb, German

28.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

29.

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

Howells, William Dean

30.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

31.

Act, don't react!

32.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

40.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

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