Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Clarke, James Freeman

Best Quotes about Action

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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

11.

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

Eliot, George

12.

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

13.

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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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

15.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

20.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

21.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

22.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

24.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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

27.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

28.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

30.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

32.

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

Eliot, George

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Wordsworth, William

37.

Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

40.

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

41.

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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.