Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Gide, Andre

Best Quotes about Action

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

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

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

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Carlyle, Thomas

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Smith, Liz

12.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

14.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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'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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Franklin, Benjamin

23.

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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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

30.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

James, William

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.