Motivational Quotes

Action

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Wanamaker, John

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Allen, Loius A.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

Proverb

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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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 curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Mother Teresa

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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 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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert