Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

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

No rules for success will work if you don't.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Rohn, Jim

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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

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

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

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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

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Eliot, George

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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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.

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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