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

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Eliot, George

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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The only way to start is to start.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Proverb, German

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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