Motivational Quotes

Action

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

- Courteline, Georges

Best Quotes about Action

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

The best way to get something done is to begin.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Eliot, George

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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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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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Milne, A. A.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen