Motivational Quotes

Action

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Action

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

Hutcheson, Francis

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Company, Lanes

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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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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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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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hill, Napoleon

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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.

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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.

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

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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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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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 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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.