Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb

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

Hill, Napoleon

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Brown, Les

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

Crow, Trammell

10.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

12.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

13.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

18.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

21.

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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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

24.

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

25.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

26.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

27.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

28.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

29.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

30.

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

32.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

33.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

34.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

35.

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

36.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

41.

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

42.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

43.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

44.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

45.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Ovid