Motivational Quotes

Action

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

- Viscott, David

Best Quotes about Action

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

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

Company, Lanes

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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The only way to start is to start.

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Milne, A. A.

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

31.

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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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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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

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Lu Xun

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

Proverb, Chinese

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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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

46.

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

Smith, Liz

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