Motivational Quotes

Action

Before you can do something you must first be something.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Ennius, Quintus

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Edwards, Edward

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, German

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Evans, Richard L.

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Holtz, Lou

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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