Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

27.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

28.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Bible

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Act, don't react!

41.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og