Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Allen, Loius A.

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

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

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Plutarch

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

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

James, William

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Green, Dennis

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Howells, William Dean

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

32.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Saunders

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.