Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Graffiti

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Holmes, Marjorie

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Wanamaker, John

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Sandburg, Carl

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Horace