Motivational Quotes

Action

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

- Vinet

Best Quotes about Action

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Milea, Jinx

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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

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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

Viscott, David

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

Macdonald, George

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert