Motivational Quotes

Action

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

- Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Best Quotes about Action

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

22.

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

32.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

33.

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

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

Crow, Trammell

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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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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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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 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

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?