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

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Eliot, George

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

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wanamaker, John

11.

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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

21.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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

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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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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

34.

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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Howells, William Dean

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis