Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Aurelius, Marcus

Best Quotes about Action

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Proverb, Ibo

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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.

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

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

Bergson, Henri L.

10.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

18.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

23.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

25.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

28.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

29.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

31.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

34.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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 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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

45.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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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

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

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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

50.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.