Motivational Quotes

Action

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

- Quarles, Francis

Best Quotes about Action

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

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Gide, Andre

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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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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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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.

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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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.

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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