Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hutcheson, Francis

Best Quotes about Action

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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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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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Einstein, Albert

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Green, Dennis

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Smiles, Samuel

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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

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Allen, Loius A.

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

42.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Croce, Benedetto

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

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