Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Action

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

Saunders

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

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

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

10.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

11.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

13.

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

Proverb, German

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

Lu Xun

16.

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

17.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Shirley, James

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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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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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

29.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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