Motivational Quotes

Action

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

- Pilgrim, Peace

Best Quotes about Action

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

Heine, Heinrich

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

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

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

Levi, Peter

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Allen, Loius A.

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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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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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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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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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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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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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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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

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

Iacocca, Lee

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Proverb, French

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Plutarch