Motivational Quotes

Action

Some will, some don't, so what!

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Sher, Barbara

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Lu Xun

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Schuller, Robert H.

11.

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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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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 your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

39.

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

Riley, Pat

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James, William

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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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