Motivational Quotes

Action

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Action

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

Carlyle, Thomas

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Rogers, Will

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

Plutarch

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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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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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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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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

Troward, Thomas

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

Smith, Liz

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

Lu Xun

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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