Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Eliot, George

Best Quotes about Action

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

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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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Wordsworth, William

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Auerbach, Red

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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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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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

Allen, Loius A.

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

James, William

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

Lu Xun

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Saying, Zen

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.