Motivational Quotes

Action

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Smiles, Samuel

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Liter, James

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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

12.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Saying, Zen

19.

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Mother Teresa

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

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Act, don't react!