Motivational Quotes

Action

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, Chinese

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

10.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

12.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

13.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

18.

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

Milea, Jinx

19.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Act, don't react!

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James, William

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

40.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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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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

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

47.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

Howells, William Dean

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara