Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Action

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

The best way to get something done is to begin.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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

11.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

13.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

14.

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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

18.

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

Confucius

19.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

20.

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

Milea, Jinx

21.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Crow, Trammell

26.

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

28.

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

29.

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

Picasso, Pablo

30.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

31.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

33.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

34.

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

Greene, Robert

35.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

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

Proverb, German

37.

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

Liter, James

38.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

39.

People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

40.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

41.

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

42.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

43.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

44.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

47.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, 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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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