Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Viscott, David

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Action is character.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

11.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

12.

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

Company, Lanes

13.

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

Angelou, Maya

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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

19.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.

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

Eliot, George

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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.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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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.

27.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

28.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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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

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

40.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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He is rich that is satisfied.