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

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

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

Bible

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

James, William

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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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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

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Proverb, Irish

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Howells, William Dean

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Viscott, David

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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