Motivational Quotes

Action

Leap, and the net will appear.

- Cameron, Julie

Best Quotes about Action

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

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Clarke, James Freeman

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

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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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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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Act, don't react!

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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 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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, 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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Try and trust will move mountains.