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

The best way to get something done is to begin.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Do it now. Then it's done.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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 really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.