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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

18.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

19.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

20.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The only way to start is to start.

23.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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

26.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

27.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

28.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

31.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

32.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

33.

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

34.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Proverb, English

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

41.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Evans, Richard L.

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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

46.

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

47.

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

Courteline, Georges

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

Dyer, Wayne

49.

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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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo