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

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Robbins, Anthony

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Saunders

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Troward, Thomas

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

James, William

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Wanamaker, John

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

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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Irish

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Graffiti

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Crow, Trammell

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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.