Motivational Quotes

Action

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

The only way to start is to start.

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

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Bible

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Lu Xun

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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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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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Proverb, American

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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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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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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

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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