Motivational Quotes

Action

From small beginnings come great things.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

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

Milea, Jinx

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

Lowenstein, John

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

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

James, William

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Evans, Richard L.

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Act, don't react!

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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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

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert