Motivational Quotes

Action

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Action

Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Graffiti

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Wordsworth, William

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Shakespeare, William

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Saunders

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Bruyere, Jean De La