Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Holmes, Marjorie

Best Quotes about Action

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

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Aikman, Leo

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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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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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.