Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lowenstein, John

Best Quotes about Action

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

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Arendt, Hannah

10.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

12.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

13.

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

14.

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

Hubbard, Kin

15.

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

Iacocca, Lee

16.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

18.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

19.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

20.

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

Proverb, Irish

21.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

23.

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

Lowenstein, John

25.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

26.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

27.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

28.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

29.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

33.

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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

35.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Cass, Lewis

38.

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

Proverb, English

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

42.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

43.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

44.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

46.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

47.

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

Grant, Heber J.

48.

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

Eliot, George

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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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais