Motivational Quotes

Action

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

- Bronte, Charlotte

Best Quotes about Action

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Milea, Jinx

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Proverb, Ibo

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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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

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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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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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

Dyer, Wayne

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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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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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Sher, Barbara

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Hazlitt, William