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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, Chinese

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Angelou, Maya

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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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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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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.

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Milne, A. A.

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Iacocca, Lee

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Buffett, Warren

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De