Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Fichte, Johann G.

Best Quotes about Action

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Hutcheson, Francis

Be both the gardener and the rose.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Grant, Heber J.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Aikman, Leo

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

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

Eliot, George

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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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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

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

Proverb, Ibo

49.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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