Motivational Quotes

Action

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

- Gorski, Nick

Best Quotes about Action

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

Eliot, George

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Troward, Thomas

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Levin, James

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Brown, Les

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

Eliot, George