Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

Ross, Percy

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

28.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

Proverb, French

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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