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

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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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

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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

Dyer, Wayne

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe