Motivational Quotes

Action

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Heine, Heinrich

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Proverb, Irish

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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Shakespeare, William

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Mother Teresa

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Howells, William Dean

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.