Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Proverb, American

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Hasselhoff, David

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

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

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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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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