Motivational Quotes

Action

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

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

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Rohn, Jim

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

Company, Lanes

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Buffett, Warren

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, French

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

Iacocca, Lee

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Galsworthy, John

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Mother Teresa

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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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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

James, William

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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Wanamaker, John

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal