Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Ross, Percy

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

Horace

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

Allen, Loius A.

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

Riley, Pat

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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

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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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Carrel, Alexis

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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

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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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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Viscott, David

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Holtz, Lou

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.