Motivational Quotes

Action

Before you can do something you must first be something.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Courteline, Georges

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Greene, Robert

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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