Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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

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

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

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Proverb, American

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Evans, Richard L.

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

29.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

40.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

41.

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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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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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