Motivational Quotes

Action

What we need is to use what we have.

- Walsh, Basil S.

Best Quotes about Action

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

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

Rogers, Will

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Saying, Zen

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

11.

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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

15.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

18.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

20.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

21.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

28.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

29.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

30.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

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

Proverb, American

32.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

33.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

34.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Action is character.

36.

Do it now. Then it's done.

37.

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

Pauling, Linus

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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.