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

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.

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.

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

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

James, William

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

11.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

Milea, Jinx

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

33.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch