Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Crow, Trammell

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Eliot, George

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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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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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