Motivational Quotes

Action

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Action

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Arendt, Hannah

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Einstein, Albert

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Sher, Barbara

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

James, William

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Shakespeare, William

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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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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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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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We will not know unless we begin.