Motivational Quotes

Action

Never confuse motion with action.

- Franklin, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Holcomb, John H.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

19.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Ovid

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Grant, Heber J.

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Wanamaker, John

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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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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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert