Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

11.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

14.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Dyer, Wayne

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

33.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Marley, Bob

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

40.

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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

42.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Proverb, Chinese