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

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Sandburg, Carl

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

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

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

Aristotle

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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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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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sher, Barbara

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Smith, Liz

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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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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

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

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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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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