Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

- Hill, Napoleon

Best Quotes about Action

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Ennius, Quintus

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Saunders

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

10.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

11.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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

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

Lord, Shirley

17.

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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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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

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

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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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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

27.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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

30.

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

31.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

32.

When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

35.

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

Warford, Rita

36.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

43.

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

Wanamaker, John

44.

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin