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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Brown, Les

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Crow, Trammell

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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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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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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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

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

Graffiti

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Holmes, Marjorie