Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Viscott, David

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Liter, James

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Green, Dennis

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Act, don't react!

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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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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Action is character.

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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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.