Motivational Quotes

Action

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Action

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

Viscott, David

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Saunders

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Confucius

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

Einstein, Albert

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

10.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

11.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

13.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

14.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Rogers, Will

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

25.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

26.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Proverb

40.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

41.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

42.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

43.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.