Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Roger, John

Best Quotes about Action

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

The best way to get something done is to begin.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

Gide, Andre

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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

11.

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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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

13.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

14.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

15.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

19.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

20.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

21.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

22.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Ibo

24.

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

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

Bible

26.

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

Green, Dennis

27.

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

28.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

29.

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

30.

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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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

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

Saying, Zen

33.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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

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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

40.

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

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

48.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

49.

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

50.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel