Motivational Quotes

Action

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

- Proverb, Latin

Best Quotes about Action

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Smith, Sydney

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

14.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

15.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

16.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

17.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

22.

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

23.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Einstein, Albert

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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

29.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Edison, Thomas A.

33.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

Proverb, Italian

35.

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.

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Act, don't react!

37.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

43.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

45.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

46.

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

Rogers, Will

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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