Motivational Quotes

Action

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

- Wanamaker, John

Best Quotes about Action

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

Company, Lanes

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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.