Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

10.

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

Ennius, Quintus

11.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

12.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

20.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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 stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

25.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

26.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

28.

Action is character.

29.

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

James, William

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Evans, Richard L.

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

34.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

38.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

40.

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

44.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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.

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

48.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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