Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

10.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

11.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

12.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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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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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

18.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

19.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Proverb, German

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

34.

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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Crow, Trammell

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

43.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Wilde, Oscar