Motivational Quotes

Action

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

- Galsworthy, John

Best Quotes about Action

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

Rogers, Will

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

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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.

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

12.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

14.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

Milne, A. A.

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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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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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mencken, H. L.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.