Motivational Quotes

Action

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

- Proverb, Ibo

Best Quotes about Action

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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 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 am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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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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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Shirley, James

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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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Bible

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

Roger, John

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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