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

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

Evans, Richard L.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Saying, Zen

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

10.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

11.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

12.

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

13.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

14.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

15.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

16.

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

Quarles, Francis

17.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

18.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

19.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

21.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

24.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

25.

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

Howells, William Dean

26.

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

27.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

28.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

29.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

30.

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

Einstein, Albert

31.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

32.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

33.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

34.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

35.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

36.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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