Motivational Quotes

Action

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

- Rowan, Carl

Best Quotes about Action

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

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Aristotle

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

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 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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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rohn, Jim

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Wanamaker, John

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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 secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

James, William

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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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

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The only way to start is to start.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.