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

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

13.

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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The only way to start is to start.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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

Bergson, Henri L.

24.

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

Bible

25.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

32.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

33.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

43.

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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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