Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, French

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

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

Ziglar, Zig

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Company, Lanes

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

Proverb, Chinese

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Lord, Shirley

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

41.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Proverb, German

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Wattles, Wallace D.