Motivational Quotes

Action

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

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

Lu Xun

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

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

Angelou, Maya

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

Eliot, George

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

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Horace

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

10.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

11.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

12.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

13.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

14.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

Sandburg, Carl

16.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

17.

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

18.

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

Evans, Richard L.

19.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

20.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

21.

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

Mother Teresa

22.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

23.

Do it now. Then it's done.

24.

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

Roger, John

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

27.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Liter, James

29.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

30.

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

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Proverb, Chinese

35.

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

Shirley, James

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

40.

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Crow, Trammell

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.