Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Ibo

Best Quotes about Action

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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.

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

Proverb, American

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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

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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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Rohn, Jim

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Einstein, Albert

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

James, William

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Proverb, French

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.