Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Action

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

Shakespeare, William

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Milne, A. A.

13.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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

Carrel, Alexis

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

Howells, William Dean

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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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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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

32.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

33.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

36.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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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