Motivational Quotes

Action

He who considers too much will perform little.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Best Quotes about Action

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

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Saunders

11.

If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

12.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

19.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Green, Dennis

21.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Grant, Heber J.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

34.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George