Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Action

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Proverb, Irish

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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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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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Proverb, Ibo

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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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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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Marley, Bob

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Smith, Liz

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Proverb, American

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

47.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.