Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Action

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The only way to start is to start.

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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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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.

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

Proverb, Chinese

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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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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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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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De