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

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Croce, Benedetto

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

13.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.

17.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

18.

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

Lord, Shirley

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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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 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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

30.

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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Milne, A. A.

34.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

40.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

41.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

42.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

43.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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

45.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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 stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

50.

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