Motivational Quotes

Action

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

- Char, Rene

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Ibo

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

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

Aikman, Leo

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

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Horace

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Evans, Richard L.

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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

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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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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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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