Motivational Quotes

Action

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

- Stone, W. Clement

Best Quotes about Action

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Levi, Peter

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

James, William

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

Malraux, Andre

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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.

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Eliot, George

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

40.

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

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

Proverb

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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

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman