Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

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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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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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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