Motivational Quotes

Action

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

- Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Best Quotes about Action

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Allen, Loius A.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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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

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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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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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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Wordsworth, William

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

Ovid

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Bronowski, Jacob