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

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

10.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

11.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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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

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

26.

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

Smith, Liz

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

31.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

42.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Macdonald, George

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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