Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Viscott, David

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

Rogers, Will

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

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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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

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Pancoast, Mal

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

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

Shirley, James

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