Motivational Quotes

Action

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

- Gorski, Nick

Best Quotes about Action

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

Pancoast, Mal

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Company, Lanes

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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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Saunders

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

James, William

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Marley, Bob

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Smiles, Samuel

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Proverb, English

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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