Motivational Quotes

Action

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

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

Eliot, George

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

10.

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

11.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

12.

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

14.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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

16.

The only way to start is to start.

17.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

18.

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

21.

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

Marley, Bob

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

27.

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

28.

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

Rohn, Jim

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

30.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

31.

Act, don't react!

32.

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

Wordsworth, William

33.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

34.

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

35.

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

Quarles, Francis

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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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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, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

40.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

41.

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

42.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

43.

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

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.