Motivational Quotes

Action

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

- Batt, Al

Best Quotes about Action

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Proverb, American

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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

Green, Dennis

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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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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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Action is character.

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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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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

James, William

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Lu Xun

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

Mother Teresa

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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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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.