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

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Carlyle, 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

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Fichte, Johann G.

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

10.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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

17.

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

18.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

Evans, Richard L.

20.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

21.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Lord, Shirley

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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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

28.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

29.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

31.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

32.

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

33.

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

34.

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

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

36.

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

37.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Milea, Jinx

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

Iacocca, Lee

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Smith, Liz

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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.

46.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

47.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Riley, Pat

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American