Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Evans, Richard L.

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

11.

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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 actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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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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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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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