Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Action

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

Dyer, Wayne

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Roger, John

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

The only way to start is to start.

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

Bible

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Smith, Sydney

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Action is character.

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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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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Horace

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Proverb, Ibo