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

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Proverb, English

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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

Picasso, Pablo

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Hasselhoff, David

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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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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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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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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Bible

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Action makes more fortune than caution.