Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

10.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

11.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The only way to start is to start.

14.

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

Sher, Barbara

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

16.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

17.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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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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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

27.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bible

30.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Riley, Pat

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Iacocca, Lee

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

38.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

39.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Hazlitt, William

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

42.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

44.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

45.

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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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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The secret of getting things done is to act!