Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Courteline, Georges

Best Quotes about Action

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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 don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Courteline, Georges

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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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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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Proverb, Chinese

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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The only way to start is to start.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

James, William

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, German

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

41.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Ross, Percy

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel