Motivational Quotes

Action

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

- Durant, William J.

Best Quotes about Action

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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.

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

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Action is character.

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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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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

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Ovid

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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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

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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The only way to start is to start.

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Proverb, German

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Eliot, George

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

Warford, Rita

43.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Act, don't react!

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Proverb, Italian

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson