Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Action

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Action is character.

2.

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

Ovid

3.

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

4.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

5.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

9.

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

Dyer, Wayne

10.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Proverb, Chinese

12.

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

13.

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

Aristotle

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

15.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

17.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

18.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

19.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

20.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

21.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

22.

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

Mother Teresa

23.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

24.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

25.

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

Batt, Al

26.

To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

27.

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

28.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

29.

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

30.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

31.

Act, don't react!

32.

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

33.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

34.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

36.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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