Motivational Quotes

Action

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Action

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Courteline, Georges

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Smith, Liz

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

Fichte, Johann G.

11.

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

Edwards, Edward

12.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

13.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

18.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

22.

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

23.

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

Green, Dennis

24.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

29.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

30.

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

Proverb, Italian

31.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

32.

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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

Pauling, Linus

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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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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

41.

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

42.

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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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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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Roger, John

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

49.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton