Motivational Quotes

Action

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Action

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Bible

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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

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

Bible

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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 greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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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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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Smith, Liz

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Marley, Bob

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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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