Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Pauling, Linus

Best Quotes about Action

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Sher, Barbara

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Action is character.

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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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

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Proverb, American

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.