Motivational Quotes

Action

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

- Levi, Peter

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Allen, Loius A.

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

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

James, William

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Eliot, George

37.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

38.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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