Motivational Quotes

Action

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

- Conwell, Russel H.

Best Quotes about Action

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Aristotle

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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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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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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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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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis