Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Eliot, George

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

Aikman, Leo

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Shakespeare, William

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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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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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Smith, Sydney

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

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

James, William

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Shirley, James

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

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

Carrel, Alexis

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto