Motivational Quotes

Action

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

- Buffett, Warren

Best Quotes about Action

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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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

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

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

Mann, Horace

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De