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

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

Lord, Shirley

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

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

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.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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.

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Hazlitt, William

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

Sandburg, Carl