Motivational Quotes

Action

From small beginnings come great things.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

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

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

13.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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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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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Saying, Zen

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

34.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

35.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Shakespeare, William

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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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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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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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