Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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

Milea, Jinx

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

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

Byrhhe, Anne

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, English

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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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.

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Do it now. Then it's done.