Motivational Quotes

Action

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

- Edison, Thomas A.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Horace

Action is character.

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

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

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

James, William

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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.

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Aristotle

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

Dyer, Wayne

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Milne, A. A.

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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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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