Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

11.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

12.

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

Sandburg, Carl

13.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

14.

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

Proverb

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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

29.

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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

31.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Smith, Liz

41.

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis