Motivational Quotes

Action

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Action

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Milne, A. A.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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 deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The only way to start is to start.

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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

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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

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Proverb, Irish

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert