Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hutcheson, Francis

Best Quotes about Action

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.

The only way to start is to start.

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Ennius, Quintus

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Howells, William Dean

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Milea, Jinx

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Aikman, Leo

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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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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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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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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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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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne