Motivational Quotes

Action

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Action

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Act, don't react!

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

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

Howells, William Dean

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.

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mother Teresa

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Proverb, American

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Aristotle

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

Liter, James

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

29.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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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 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

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Bible

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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