Motivational Quotes

Action

He who considers too much will perform little.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Action

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Galsworthy, John

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

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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

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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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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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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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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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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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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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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.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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

Horace

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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

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

Proverb, German

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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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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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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