Motivational Quotes

Action

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

- Proverb, English

Best Quotes about Action

Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

10.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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The only way to start is to start.

15.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Evans, Richard L.

27.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Roger, John

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Ovid

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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

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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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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Plutarch

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.