Motivational Quotes

Action

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

- Adams, Charles Francis

Best Quotes about Action

Action is character.

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

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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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

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

Ovid

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Ennius, Quintus

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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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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

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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.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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