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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Graffiti

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

30.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Gide, Andre

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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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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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