Motivational Quotes

Action

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Action

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Proverb

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Company, Lanes

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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.

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William