Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Pauling, Linus

Best Quotes about Action

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

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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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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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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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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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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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon