Motivational Quotes

Action

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

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

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Bible

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Ennius, Quintus

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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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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

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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

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Macdonald, George

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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 bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya