Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

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.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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.

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

Bible

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

Saunders

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

19.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

21.

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

Dyer, Wayne

22.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

24.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

25.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

27.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

28.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

29.

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

30.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

31.

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

Sandburg, Carl

32.

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Iacocca, Lee

36.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Sher, Barbara

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Shirley, James

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.