Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Sandburg, Carl

Best Quotes about Action

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

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

Marley, Bob

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

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

17.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Ovid

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

38.

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

Heine, Heinrich

39.

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

Courteline, Georges

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

43.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Saying, Zen

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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

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore