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

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

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Wanamaker, John

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Wilde, Oscar

11.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Lord, Shirley

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

21.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

26.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

40.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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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

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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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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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