Motivational Quotes

Action

Some will, some don't, so what!

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Saunders

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

South, Bishop Robert

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Holtz, Lou

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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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.

Dhammapada

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

43.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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