Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Action

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

11.

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

Holtz, Lou

12.

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

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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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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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

31.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

42.

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

Lu Xun

43.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Rohn, Jim

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges