Motivational Quotes

Action

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

- Mann, Horace

Best Quotes about Action

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, Irish

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Galsworthy, John

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

Milne, A. A.

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Proverb, English

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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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Sher, Barbara

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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

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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

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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.