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

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

Galsworthy, John

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Einstein, Albert

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Evans, Richard L.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

Proverb

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

31.

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

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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.

33.

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

Holtz, Lou

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

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Liter, James

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rohn, Jim

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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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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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