Motivational Quotes

Action

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Action

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Proverb, German

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

Action is character.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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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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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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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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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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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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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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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Holtz, Lou

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al