Motivational Quotes

Action

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Shakespeare, William

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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One of the marks of a 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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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

12.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

21.

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

Marley, Bob

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

24.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Ibo

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