Motivational Quotes

Action

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Action

Do it now. Then it's done.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Batt, Al

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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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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

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

Ennius, Quintus

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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.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Act, don't react!

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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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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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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