Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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.

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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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

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Company, Lanes

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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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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Rohn, Jim

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney