Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

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Best Quotes about Action

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

Gide, Andre

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

10.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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 responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

14.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

15.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

16.

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

Saunders

17.

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

Smith, Sydney

18.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

19.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

20.

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

Carrel, Alexis

21.

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

22.

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.

23.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

24.

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

25.

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

26.

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

27.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

28.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

29.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

30.

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

Lord, Shirley

31.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

32.

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

Proverb, English

33.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

34.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

35.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

37.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

41.

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

42.

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

43.

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

James, William

44.

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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

48.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

49.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal