Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Smiles, Samuel

Best Quotes about Action

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.

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

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Edwards, Edward

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Ibo

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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 expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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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

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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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

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Howells, William Dean

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Proverb, English

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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