Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Curcio, Joan L.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

10.

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

Wanamaker, John

11.

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

12.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Ross, Percy

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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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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Howells, William Dean

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

29.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

30.

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

Mann, Horace

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

32.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

33.

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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

39.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

47.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

48.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.