Motivational Quotes

Action

Leap, and the net will appear.

- Cameron, Julie

Best Quotes about Action

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Horace

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

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

Croce, Benedetto

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Company, Lanes

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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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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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buffett, Warren

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.