Motivational Quotes

Action

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

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

Marley, Bob

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

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

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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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 prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Act, don't react!

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Gide, Andre

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.