Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Smith, Liz

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

James, William

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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston