Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Roger, John

Best Quotes about Action

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

Carrel, Alexis

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

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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

Grant, Heber J.

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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 strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

14.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Macdonald, George

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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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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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Cass, Lewis

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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

Confucius

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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 dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Action is character.

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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