Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Lowenstein, John

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

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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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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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.

24.

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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

27.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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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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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.