Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Action

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

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

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

The best way to get something done is to begin.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Action is character.

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

Mother Teresa

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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

Saunders

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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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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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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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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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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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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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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von