Motivational Quotes

Action

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Action

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

Allen, Loius A.

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

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

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

Smith, Liz

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

Holtz, Lou

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

10.

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

11.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

12.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

14.

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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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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

17.

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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

19.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

23.

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.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

27.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

28.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

29.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Croce, Benedetto

31.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

32.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

38.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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

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

Proverb

42.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

43.

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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Mexican

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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