Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Morgan, John Pierpont

Best Quotes about Action

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

Grant, Heber J.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Proverb

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Green, Dennis

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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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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Proverb, French

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

Mann, Horace

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Proverb, Ibo

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