Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

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

Buffett, Warren

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bible

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Shakespeare, William

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Company, Lanes

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Lu Xun

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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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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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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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Holtz, Lou

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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