Motivational Quotes

Action

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Action

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

Gide, Andre

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

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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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

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

31.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Liter, James

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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

James, William

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.