Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Sher, Barbara

Best Quotes about Action

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

Edwards, Edward

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

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

Levi, Peter

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Proverb, English

You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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

11.

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

Hasselhoff, David

12.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

15.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

16.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

17.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

18.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

19.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

20.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

26.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

27.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

28.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

31.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

33.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

37.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

40.

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

44.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

45.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

48.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich