Motivational Quotes

Action

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

- Robbins, Anthony

Best Quotes about Action

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

11.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

14.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

15.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

16.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

17.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

18.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Schmidt, Helmut

26.

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

Carrel, Alexis

27.

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

Sher, Barbara

28.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

29.

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

31.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

34.

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

Lu Xun

35.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Courteline, Georges

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

41.

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

Smith, Liz

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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

48.

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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von