Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Heine, Heinrich

Best Quotes about Action

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Graffiti

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

Cass, Lewis

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

Proverb, French

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

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Eliot, George

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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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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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Crow, Trammell

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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.