Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Action

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Ziglar, Zig

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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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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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Levi, Peter

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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