Motivational Quotes

Action

A well begun is half ended.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

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

South, Bishop Robert

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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The only way to start is to start.

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted