Motivational Quotes

Action

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Action

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Proverb, German

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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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The only way to start is to start.

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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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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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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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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Saying, Zen

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish