Motivational Quotes

Action

Either move or be moved.

- Powell, Colin

Best Quotes about Action

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Green, Dennis

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Smiles, Samuel

10.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

11.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

12.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

13.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Einstein, Albert

18.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

Hubbard, Kin

20.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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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

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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

Quarles, Francis

34.

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

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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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Allen, Loius A.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.