Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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.

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

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Sandburg, Carl

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lowenstein, John

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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.