Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Shirley, James

Best Quotes about Action

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Levi, Peter

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

10.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

11.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

12.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Shirley, James

14.

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

15.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.

17.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Shakespeare, William

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

38.

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

39.

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

Evans, Richard L.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

41.

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

Smith, Liz

42.

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

Proverb, French

43.

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

Wanamaker, John

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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