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

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Curcio, Joan L.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

10.

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

11.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

12.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

13.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

15.

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

16.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

17.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

18.

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

Eliot, George

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

21.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

24.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

26.

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

Holtz, Lou

27.

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

Ovid

28.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

29.

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

Proverb, Mexican

30.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

31.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Smith, Liz

33.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

34.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

35.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

36.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

37.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

45.

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

Einstein, Albert

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.