Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hutcheson, Francis

Best Quotes about Action

Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Edison, Thomas A.

18.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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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 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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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor