Motivational Quotes

Action

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

- Bergson, Henri L.

Best Quotes about Action

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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

Eliot, George

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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.

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

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Smith, Liz

11.

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

Lu Xun

12.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

14.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Bible

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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

18.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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

22.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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.

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

Shakespeare, William

25.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

26.

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

Holtz, Lou

27.

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

Green, Dennis

28.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

31.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Levi, Peter

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

35.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Saying, Zen

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

39.

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

Sandburg, Carl

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

42.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Proverb, Chinese