Motivational Quotes

Action

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Action

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

22.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

23.

'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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Proverb, Irish

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

44.

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

45.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy