Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

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.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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.

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

42.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Pancoast, Mal