Motivational Quotes

Action

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

- Curcio, Joan L.

Best Quotes about Action

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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.

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Fichte, Johann G.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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 curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

27.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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 link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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