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

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Carlyle, Thomas

The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Arendt, Hannah

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Saying, Zen

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Aikman, Leo

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.