Motivational Quotes

Action

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Action

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Smith, Liz

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

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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

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Troward, Thomas

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Eliot, George

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.