Motivational Quotes

Action

Action makes more fortune than caution.

- Clapiers, Luc De

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Ovid

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Saying, Zen

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

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Lu Xun

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Roger, John

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

Proverb

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Proverb, Ibo

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.