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

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Smiles, Samuel

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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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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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Crow, Trammell

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Bible

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Horace

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

Proverb, Italian

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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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