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

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Horace

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

12.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Rohn, Jim

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

19.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

20.

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

Proverb, German

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Auerbach, Red

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

25.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

27.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

28.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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The only way to start is to start.

33.

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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Pine, Arthur

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

41.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

42.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Either move or be moved.