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

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Lord, Shirley

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

Be both the gardener and the rose.

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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

11.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

12.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

13.

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

15.

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

16.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

17.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

18.

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

20.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

21.

The only way to start is to start.

22.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

24.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

25.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

28.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

31.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

32.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

33.

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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

35.

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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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

38.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

39.

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

Smiles, Samuel

40.

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

Shakespeare, William

41.

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

Saunders

42.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

43.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

44.

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

Marley, Bob

45.

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

Ovid

46.

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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

48.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

49.

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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.