Motivational Quotes

Action

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

- Proverb, Chinese

Best Quotes about Action

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Shirley, James

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

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Milea, Jinx

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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

12.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

13.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Lowenstein, John

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

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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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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

30.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

31.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

32.

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

38.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Levi, Peter

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

Ross, Percy