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

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Proverb, American

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

27.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Act, don't react!

29.

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

Proverb

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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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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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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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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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.