Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Amiel, Henri Frederic

Best Quotes about Action

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

Courteline, Georges

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

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

Sher, Barbara

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Proverb, Italian

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Gide, Andre

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Horace

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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