Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lord, Shirley

Best Quotes about Action

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

Gaulle, Charles De

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Courteline, Georges

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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