Motivational Quotes

Action

Leap, and the net will appear.

- Cameron, Julie

Best Quotes about Action

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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.

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

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

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

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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.

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

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

Milne, A. A.

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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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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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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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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Mann, Horace

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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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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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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb

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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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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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