Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Best Quotes about Action

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Mann, Horace

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

13.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Proverb

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

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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The only way to start is to start.

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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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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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bible

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin