Motivational Quotes

Action

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Action

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Ennius, Quintus

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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Proverb

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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

31.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

33.

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

34.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

42.

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

43.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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

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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.