Motivational Quotes

Action

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Action

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Lord, Shirley

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

23.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

24.

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

Company, Lanes

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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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Proverb, Mexican

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

39.

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

Holtz, Lou

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Aurelius, Marcus

44.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

45.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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