Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

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

Mencken, H. L.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

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

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, German

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Act, don't react!

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Wanamaker, John

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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