Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Action

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

19.

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.

20.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Picasso, Pablo

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

39.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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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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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

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

Arendt, Hannah

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

Batt, Al

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo