Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Cooley, Charles Horton

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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

Saunders

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Eliot, George

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Ovid

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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One of the marks of a 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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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