Motivational Quotes

Action

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

- Ashton, Marvin J.

Best Quotes about Action

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

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

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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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

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

Brown, Les

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Company, Lanes

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

Crow, Trammell

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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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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Croce, Benedetto

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

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

James, William

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

Rohn, Jim

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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 look back, just keep on walking.