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

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Holmes, Marjorie

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Warford, Rita

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

10.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Lord, Shirley

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

17.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

18.

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

Proverb, Irish

19.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Proverb, Chinese

27.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Proverb, Italian

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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

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

33.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The only way to start is to start.

35.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

36.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Proverb, American

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Buffett, Warren

41.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

45.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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