Motivational Quotes

Action

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Action

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

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

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Sandburg, Carl

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Carrel, Alexis

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.