Motivational Quotes

Action

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

- Green, Dennis

Best Quotes about Action

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Rogers, Will

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Action is character.

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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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

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Crow, Trammell

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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