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 have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Galsworthy, John

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

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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

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

Gide, Andre

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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.