Motivational Quotes

Action

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Horace

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

Allen, Loius A.

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

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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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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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

30.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

43.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Smiles, Samuel

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William