Motivational Quotes

Action

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Action

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Ennius, Quintus

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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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Smith, Liz

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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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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Proverb

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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Ross, Percy

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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 must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Milne, A. A.

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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.

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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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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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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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Action is character.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie