Motivational Quotes

Action

Action makes more fortune than caution.

- Clapiers, Luc De

Best Quotes about Action

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Crow, Trammell

The best way to get something done is to begin.

10.

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

11.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

12.

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

Levi, Peter

14.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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

Cass, Lewis

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

18.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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

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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

24.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

25.

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

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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

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

28.

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

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Lord, Shirley

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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

32.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Shirley, James

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Rohn, Jim

40.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

41.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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