Motivational Quotes

Action

Action makes more fortune than caution.

- Clapiers, Luc De

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Hasselhoff, David

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Proverb, German

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

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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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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Batt, Al

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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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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Proverb

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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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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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

41.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Action is character.

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.