Motivational Quotes

Action

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

- Proverb, Latin

Best Quotes about Action

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

11.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

12.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

13.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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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

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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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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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The only way to start is to start.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.

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

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

33.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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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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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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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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

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

43.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.