Motivational Quotes

Action

Before you can do something you must first be something.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

James, William

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

Lowenstein, John

11.

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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Roger, John

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

18.

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

22.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

23.

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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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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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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Action is character.

27.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

31.

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

Proverb, French

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

33.

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

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

41.

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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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

Sandburg, Carl

46.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo