Motivational Quotes

Action

Try and trust will move mountains.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Action

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

Lincoln, Abraham

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mencken, H. L.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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

Ovid

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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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

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Action is character.

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

James, William

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett