Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

- South, Bishop Robert

Best Quotes about Action

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

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Proverb, Chinese

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Roger, John

11.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

12.

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

Mother Teresa

13.

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Cass, Lewis

29.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Company, Lanes

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ovid

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

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston