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

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

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

Brown, Les

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Picasso, Pablo

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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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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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

23.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

25.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

27.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

28.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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

39.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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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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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

James, William