Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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

Graffiti

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Milne, A. A.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Cass, Lewis

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Eliot, George