Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Action

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, American

No rules for success will work if you don't.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

One of the marks of a 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

10.

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

11.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

12.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

21.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb, Chinese

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

29.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

30.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Levi, Peter

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Iacocca, Lee

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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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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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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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.