Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

11.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Action is character.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Grant, Heber J.

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Company, Lanes

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

41.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

42.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

43.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

44.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

45.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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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

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

Evans, Richard L.