Motivational Quotes

Action

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Action

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

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

Mann, Horace

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Marley, Bob

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Act, don't react!

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Proverb, French

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

Ovid

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

Courteline, Georges

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

James, William

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael