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

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

Bergson, Henri L.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Carlyle, Thomas

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Howells, William Dean

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

40.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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You can't aim a duck to death.