Motivational Quotes

Action

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

- Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Best Quotes about Action

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Mann, Horace

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

The only way to start is to start.

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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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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Hubbard, Kin

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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

Proverb, Mexican

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Holtz, Lou

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Milne, A. A.

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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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.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Gide, Andre