Motivational Quotes

Action

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Hubbard, Kin

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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

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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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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

19.

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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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

28.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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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 odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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.

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Action is character.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally