Motivational Quotes

Action

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Hasselhoff, David

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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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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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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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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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Bible

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Proverb, Irish

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre