Motivational Quotes

Action

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

- Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

Best Quotes about Action

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

Quarles, Francis

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Proverb, English

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

Franklin, Benjamin

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Mother Teresa

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

17.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

18.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Dyer, Wayne

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

25.

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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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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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

40.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,