Motivational Quotes

Action

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

- Proverb, Danish

Best Quotes about Action

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lu Xun

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

25.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

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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

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

38.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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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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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.