Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Proverb, Mexican

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

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

14.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

18.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

21.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

22.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Rohn, Jim

25.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Smiles, Samuel

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

30.

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

Bible

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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

Evans, Richard L.

34.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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

Eliot, George

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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

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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.