Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

Do it now. Then it's done.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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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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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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Wanamaker, John

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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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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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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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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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

James, William

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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

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

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

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

Sher, Barbara

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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You will never win if you never begin.