Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Evans, Richard L.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Horace

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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.

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

Plutarch

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

11.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

12.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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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

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

16.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

17.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

18.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

20.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

21.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

22.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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 greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

25.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

27.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

30.

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

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

32.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

33.

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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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

35.

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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

42.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Ovid

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Proverb, French