Motivational Quotes

Action

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

- Ennius, Quintus

Best Quotes about Action

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

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Horace

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

18.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

21.

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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

23.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Plutarch

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Mother Teresa

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

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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.

34.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.