Motivational Quotes

Action

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Action

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Proverb, American

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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The only way to start is to start.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hasselhoff, David

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

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

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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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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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Macdonald, George

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.