Motivational Quotes

Action

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Action

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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.

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Curcio, Joan L.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

21.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

Pauling, Linus

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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.

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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

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

Warford, Rita

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Bible

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao