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

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Iacocca, Lee

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

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

Lord, Shirley

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

12.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

13.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

14.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

17.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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

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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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Act, don't react!

22.

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

Holtz, Lou

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

29.

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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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 road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

35.

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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

37.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Gide, Andre

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Evans, Richard L.

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