Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Proverb, German

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

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Levi, Peter

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

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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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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Saying, Zen

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

Smiles, Samuel

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Holtz, Lou

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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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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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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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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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Evans, Richard L.

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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