Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

Bible

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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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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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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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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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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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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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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.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Sher, Barbara

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.