Motivational Quotes

Action

I didn't think; I experimented.

- Roentgen, Wilhelm

Best Quotes about Action

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

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

The only way to start is to start.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

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

Mother Teresa

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Proverb, Irish

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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

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James, William

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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese