Motivational Quotes

Action

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Horace

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Wilde, Oscar

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Lowenstein, John

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Let us be tried by our actions.

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