Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Batt, Al

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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.

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

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

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Act, don't react!

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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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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

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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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 soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Shakespeare, William

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Saunders

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Green, Dennis

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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