Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Action

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

The only way to start is to start.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Arendt, Hannah

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

Smiles, Samuel

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Marley, Bob

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

Lu Xun

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Gide, Andre

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

Mother Teresa

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Company, Lanes

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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To begin, begin.