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

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Smith, Liz

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

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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.

11.

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

12.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

13.

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

Troward, Thomas

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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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The only way to start is to start.

16.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

17.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

18.

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

Brown, Les

19.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

20.

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Sandburg, Carl

25.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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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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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

30.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

39.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

40.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

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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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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

45.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Courteline, Georges