Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

- Pike, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

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.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

Act, don't react!

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Action is character.

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Brown, Les

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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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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Croce, Benedetto