Motivational Quotes

Action

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

- Collingwood, Robin G.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Ovid

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

Do it now. Then it's done.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

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

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

13.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

14.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

15.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

16.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

17.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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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

21.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

25.

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

26.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

27.

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 is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

30.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

33.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

34.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

35.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

36.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

37.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Gide, Andre

39.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

40.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

41.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb, Mexican

45.

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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.