Motivational Quotes

Action

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Action

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

Saying, Zen

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

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Courteline, Georges

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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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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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Aristotle

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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