Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Saying, Zen

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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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 will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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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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

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.