Motivational Quotes

Action

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Mexican

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

Edison, Thomas A.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Croce, Benedetto

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

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

Action is character.

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

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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

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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

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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