Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bronowski, Jacob

Best Quotes about Action

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Horace

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

James, William

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Auerbach, Red

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Sandburg, Carl

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One of the marks of a 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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Proverb, Ibo

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Ovid

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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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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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De