Motivational Quotes

Action

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

- Pound, Ezra

Best Quotes about Action

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Bible

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

Evans, Richard L.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Proverb, German

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

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Act, don't react!

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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The only way to start is to start.

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

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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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

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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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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von