Motivational Quotes

Action

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Eliot, George

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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

15.

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

Gide, Andre

16.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

17.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

18.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

19.

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.

20.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Milne, A. A.

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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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

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Carrel, Alexis

33.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

34.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

35.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

36.

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

Horace

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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

41.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

43.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Greene, Robert

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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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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,