Motivational Quotes

Action

Act quickly, think slowly.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Action

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Greene, Robert

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Proverb, Chinese

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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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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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Sher, Barbara

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The only way to start is to start.

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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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Picasso, Pablo

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Proverb, Italian

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus