Motivational Quotes

Action

You don't have to get it right the first time.

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Action

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

Confucius

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Einstein, Albert

10.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

11.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

14.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

15.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

16.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

17.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

18.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

19.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

20.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

21.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

24.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

25.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

29.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

30.

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

Proverb, English

31.

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

32.

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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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

35.

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

Greene, Robert

36.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

42.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

43.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

44.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

45.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

49.

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig