Motivational Quotes

Action

Either move or be moved.

- Powell, Colin

Best Quotes about Action

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

Holmes, Marjorie

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

11.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

14.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Mann, Horace

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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.

26.

Act, don't react!

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

31.

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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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Galsworthy, John

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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The only way to start is to start.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

41.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican