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

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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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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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Plutarch

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Proverb, Mexican

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

James, William

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

Proverb, Italian

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

41.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Act, don't react!

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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No rules for success will work if you don't.