Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Robbins, Anthony

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Horace

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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Smiles, Samuel

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lu Xun

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Pike, Albert

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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He who considers too much will perform little.