Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Roger, John

Best Quotes about Action

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

Quarles, Francis

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

Pancoast, Mal

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Proverb, Chinese

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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.

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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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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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 go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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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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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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What we need is to use what we have.