Motivational Quotes

Action

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

- Cousins, Norman

Best Quotes about Action

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Aristotle

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

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

Marley, Bob

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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

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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Sher, Barbara

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Rohn, Jim

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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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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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

James, William

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bible

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Ovid

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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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From small beginnings come great things.