Motivational Quotes

Action

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

- Howells, William Dean

Best Quotes about Action

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

10.

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

11.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

13.

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

Eliot, George

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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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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

18.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

19.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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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

25.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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

29.

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

Eliot, George

30.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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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

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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 critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

42.

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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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

46.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

47.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Cass, Lewis