Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Aristotle

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Hill, Napoleon

10.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

11.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Wanamaker, John

14.

Act, don't react!

15.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

17.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

18.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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

21.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Brown, Les

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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

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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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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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

28.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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

35.

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

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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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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

39.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

40.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.