Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

- Collier, Robert

Best Quotes about Action

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Proverb, American

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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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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

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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Confucius

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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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Act, don't react!

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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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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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.