Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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