Motivational Quotes

Action

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Action

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Ross, Percy

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Plutarch

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Grant, Heber J.

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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.

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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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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

James, William

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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

Ovid

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Wordsworth, 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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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.

40.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Lowenstein, John

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, French

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya