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

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

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Proverb, English

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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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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Courteline, Georges

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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

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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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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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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

South, Bishop Robert

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North