Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Quarles, Francis

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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 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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

Wanamaker, John

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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 become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Einstein, Albert

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Milne, A. A.

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

Ovid

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bible

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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