Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is character.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

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

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

Milea, Jinx

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Gide, Andre

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Mother Teresa

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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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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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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Green, Dennis

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Smiles, Samuel

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

James, William

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Evans, Richard L.

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Holtz, Lou

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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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