Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is character.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

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

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Company, Lanes

10.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

Bible

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

21.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Wordsworth, William

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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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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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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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

28.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

29.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

30.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

31.

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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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

33.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

34.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

35.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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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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

43.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

48.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

49.

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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Be both the gardener and the rose.