Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Gracian, Baltasar

Best Quotes about Action

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Viscott, David

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

27.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, American

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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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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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

Smith, Liz

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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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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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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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