Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Pancoast, Mal

Best Quotes about Action

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

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Croce, Benedetto

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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

11.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

12.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

13.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

18.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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

Pancoast, Mal

20.

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

21.

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

23.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

24.

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

25.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

26.

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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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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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Dyer, Wayne

32.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

33.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

34.

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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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.

36.

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

37.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

38.

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

Proverb, Italian

39.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

40.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

41.

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

Horace

42.

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

Auerbach, Red

43.

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

Eliot, George

44.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

45.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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

49.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David