Motivational Quotes

Action

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

- Landon, Michael

Best Quotes about Action

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

James, William

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

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lu Xun

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Lord, Shirley

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Allen, Loius A.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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