Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Saunders

Best Quotes about Action

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Evans, Richard L.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

11.

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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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 must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Saunders

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Bible

31.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Winning starts with beginning.