Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hammarskjold, Dag

Best Quotes about Action

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Marley, Bob

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

Proverb, Chinese

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Milne, A. A.

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

James, William

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Proverb, American

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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.

Malraux, Andre

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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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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Mother Teresa

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Saunders

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Act, don't react!

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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