Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Action

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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

Edwards, Edward

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

Holtz, Lou

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Smith, Sydney

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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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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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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Proverb, French

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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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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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.

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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