Motivational Quotes

Action

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Action

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Roger, John

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Allen, Loius A.

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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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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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Graffiti

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Company, Lanes

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

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Sher, Barbara