Motivational Quotes

Action

Before you can do something you must first be something.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

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

Allen, Loius A.

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

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Action is character.

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

Proverb, Mexican

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Confucius

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

Proverb, English

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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

Shirley, James

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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.

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Act, don't react!

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert