Motivational Quotes

Action

I didn't think; I experimented.

- Roentgen, Wilhelm

Best Quotes about Action

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Greene, Robert

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Bible

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Graffiti

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Ovid

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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

Sandburg, Carl

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Proverb, Chinese

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Rogers, Will

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.