Motivational Quotes

Action

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

- Croce, Benedetto

Best Quotes about Action

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

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Carrel, Alexis

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

Action is character.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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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.

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Lu Xun

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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