Motivational Quotes

Action

You can't aim a duck to death.

- Boardman, Gael

Best Quotes about Action

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Proverb, Ibo

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.