Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Action

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Proverb

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

25.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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He is rich that is satisfied.