Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Action

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

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

Bergson, Henri L.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Saunders

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Hasselhoff, David

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Lord, Shirley

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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The only way to start is to start.

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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

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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 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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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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