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

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

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

10.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

11.

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

Eliot, George

12.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Rohn, Jim

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

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

20.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

21.

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

Milne, A. A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Eliot, George

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

27.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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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'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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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Einstein, Albert

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

40.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

41.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

42.

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

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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