Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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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.

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Action is character.

21.

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

23.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

25.

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

27.

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

28.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

29.

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

James, William

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

Holtz, Lou

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, American

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.