Motivational Quotes

Action

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about Action

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Smiles, Samuel

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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

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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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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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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

James, William

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Buffett, Warren

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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The only way to start is to start.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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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