Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Milne, A. A.

Best Quotes about Action

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

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

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.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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

Proverb, American

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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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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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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

18.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Action is character.

21.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Eliot, George

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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.

40.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.