Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Mexican

Best Quotes about Action

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Eliot, George

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Horace

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, German

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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The only way to start is to start.

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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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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl