Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Fichte, Johann G.

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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

Arendt, Hannah

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Proverb, American

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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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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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

James, William

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Liter, James

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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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