Motivational Quotes

Action

Never confuse motion with action.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Proverb, French

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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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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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Courteline, Georges

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

Hubbard, Kin

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

South, Bishop Robert

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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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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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