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

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Howells, William Dean

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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.

10.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

11.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Saunders

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

19.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

21.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

23.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Ross, Percy

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Grant, Heber J.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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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.

37.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Green, Dennis

42.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

43.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus