Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Action

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

James, William

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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

11.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

12.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

13.

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

Hubbard, Kin

14.

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

15.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

16.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

17.

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

Lu Xun

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Auerbach, Red

22.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

25.

Action is character.

26.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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

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

Marley, Bob

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

38.

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

39.

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

40.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

41.

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

Company, Lanes

42.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

44.

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.

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

Bible

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.