Motivational Quotes

Action

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

- Char, Rene

Best Quotes about Action

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

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smiles, Samuel

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Brown, Les

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Sher, Barbara

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

Bible

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

James, William

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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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

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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Roger, John

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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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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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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ovid

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Batt, Al

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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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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