Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Crow, Trammell

Best Quotes about Action

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

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

Sher, Barbara

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

11.

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

Holtz, Lou

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Horace

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Milne, A. A.

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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Mother Teresa

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben