Motivational Quotes

Action

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

- Hutcheson, Francis

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, English

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

Saunders

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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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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

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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Holtz, Lou

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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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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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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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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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.