Motivational Quotes

Action

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

- Durant, William J.

Best Quotes about Action

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

12.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

13.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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

16.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

17.

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

18.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

19.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

20.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

21.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

22.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

25.

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

Ovid

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

29.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

30.

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

38.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

39.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

40.

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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

42.

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

43.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

44.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

45.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

46.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

Proverb, Chinese

48.

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

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

50.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al