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

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

Proverb, Chinese

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Robbins, Anthony

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Riley, Pat

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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.

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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

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

Shirley, James

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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

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

James, William

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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,

Magnin, Edgar F.