Motivational Quotes

Action

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Action

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

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

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

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

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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.