Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Levi, Peter

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

20.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

21.

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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Mann, Horace

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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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

32.

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

33.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

34.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Ovid

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

43.

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

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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

49.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges