Motivational Quotes

Action

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

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

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Levi, Peter

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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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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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

22.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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

34.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

40.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

46.

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