Motivational Quotes

Action

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

- Greene, Robert

Best Quotes about Action

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Ross, Percy

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Aristotle

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Proverb, French

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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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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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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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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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

38.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

39.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

41.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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