Motivational Quotes

Action

Try and trust will move mountains.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Action

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Buffett, Warren

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Bible

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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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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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Bible

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

Proverb

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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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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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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

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Rogers, Will

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Be both the gardener and the rose.