Motivational Quotes

Action

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Action

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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

Green, Dennis

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Proverb, Ibo

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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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

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Horace

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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

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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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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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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen