Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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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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

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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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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

James, William

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

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.