Motivational Quotes

Action

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, 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

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Brown, Les

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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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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

22.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

23.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Proverb, Chinese

28.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

29.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

31.

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

Aristotle

32.

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

33.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

34.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Mexican

38.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

39.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

40.

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

Batt, Al

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

43.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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To begin, begin.