Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Proverb, English

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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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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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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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Eliot, George

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Action is character.

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement