Motivational Quotes

Action

Let your performance do the thinking.

- Brown Jr., H. Jackson

Best Quotes about Action

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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

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

Saying, Zen

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

13.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

Galsworthy, John

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Green, Dennis

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Holtz, Lou

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

42.

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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

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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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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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

Hutcheson, Francis