Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Action

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, American

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Saunders

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The only way to start is to start.

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

James, William

15.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

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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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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon