Motivational Quotes

Action

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

Best Quotes about Action

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

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

10.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

11.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

12.

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

Proverb

13.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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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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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

17.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

18.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

20.

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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

22.

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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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

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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Horace

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

38.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

39.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.