Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

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

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Edwards, Edward

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

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

11.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

14.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

16.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

17.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

18.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

19.

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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

21.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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

24.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

25.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

29.

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

Pancoast, Mal

30.

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

Proverb, Chinese

31.

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

32.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

34.

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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

36.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

37.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

Proverb, French

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

43.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

44.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

46.

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

Greene, Robert

47.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Horace

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz