Motivational Quotes

Action

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

- Durant, William J.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Fichte, Johann G.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Heine, Heinrich

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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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

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

Rohn, Jim

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Horace

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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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 am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Ovid

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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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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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