Motivational Quotes

Action

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Action

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

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

Bible

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

11.

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

12.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Proverb, Chinese

15.

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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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

17.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

19.

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

20.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

21.

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

Ovid

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

24.

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

25.

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

26.

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

27.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

28.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

29.

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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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

31.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

32.

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

Saying, Zen

33.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

34.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

35.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

36.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

38.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

39.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

40.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Einstein, Albert

42.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

44.

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

45.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

Dyer, Wayne

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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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