Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Howells, William Dean

Best Quotes about Action

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Warford, Rita

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

Green, Dennis

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Saying, Zen

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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James, William

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Action is character.

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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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