Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Action

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

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

11.

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

Auerbach, Red

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

31.

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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

33.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Shirley, James

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

Wanamaker, John

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

46.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Howells, William Dean

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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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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