Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Howells, William Dean

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Milne, A. A.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Eliot, George

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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

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

Liter, James

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Einstein, Albert

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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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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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

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Shakespeare, William