Motivational Quotes

Action

Do it now. Then it's done.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Hazlitt, William

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Lord, Shirley

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Milne, A. A.

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Proverb

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

Ovid

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Holtz, Lou

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

28.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

33.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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 dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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It is better to rust out than wear out.