Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Action

The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

18.

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

Ovid

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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

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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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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

28.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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

Shirley, James

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Eliot, George

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.