Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

Auerbach, Red

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

Proverb, Chinese

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

11.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

12.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

13.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

14.

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

Wilde, Oscar

15.

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

Proverb, Ibo

16.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

18.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

19.

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

20.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

21.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

22.

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.

23.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

24.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

25.

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

26.

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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

28.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

29.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

30.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

31.

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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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

33.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

34.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

35.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

36.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

37.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

38.

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

39.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

40.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

41.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

42.

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

Gide, Andre

43.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

45.

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

South, Bishop Robert

46.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

47.

Do it now. Then it's done.

48.

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

49.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.