Motivational Quotes

Action

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

- Berger, Sally

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Levi, Peter

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Evans, Richard L.

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Pauling, Linus

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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

Company, Lanes

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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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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Proverb, Italian

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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.

25.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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

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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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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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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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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.