Motivational Quotes

Action

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

- Gaulle, Charles De

Best Quotes about Action

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Adams, Charles Francis

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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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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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.

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Pancoast, Mal

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

44.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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