Motivational Quotes

Action

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

- Eliot, Sir John

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Mexican

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

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Proverb, German

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

30.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Eliot, George

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Picasso, Pablo

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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.