Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Sartre, Jean-Paul

Best Quotes about Action

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Troward, Thomas

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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The only way to start is to start.

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Roger, John

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Shirley, James

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Proverb, German

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Bible

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Smith, Liz

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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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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Bible

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.