Motivational Quotes

Action

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

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Best Quotes about Action

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

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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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

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

Plutarch

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

19.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Lord, Shirley

21.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Milea, Jinx

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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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

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

43.

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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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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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

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.