Motivational Quotes

Action

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

- Proverb, Irish

Best Quotes about Action

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Saunders

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

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

Mann, Horace

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

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

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Bible

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Action is character.

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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Proverb

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Heine, Heinrich