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

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Heine, Heinrich

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

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

Saunders

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

Levi, Peter

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

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

10.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

12.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wanamaker, John

17.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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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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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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

25.

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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

30.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

32.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Do it now. Then it's done.

37.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

38.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

40.

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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

44.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.