Motivational Quotes

Action

Act quickly, think slowly.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Action

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Proverb, Italian

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.

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

Bible

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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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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

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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.