Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Levin, James

Best Quotes about Action

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

Howells, William Dean

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Robbins, Anthony

11.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

12.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

14.

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

Smiles, Samuel

15.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

18.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Proverb

21.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

24.

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

Edwards, Edward

25.

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

Smith, Liz

26.

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 reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

29.

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

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

33.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

34.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

35.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Action is character.

38.

The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Do it now. Then it's done.

43.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

44.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

45.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

46.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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.