Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Action

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

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Courteline, Georges

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Bible

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

Proverb

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri 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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Smith, Liz

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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

32.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Lu Xun

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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