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

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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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

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

Proverb

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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

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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

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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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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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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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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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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon