Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is character.

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Best Quotes about Action

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

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 world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Mencken, H. L.

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Shirley, James

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, Italian

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Sher, Barbara

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Bible

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Crow, Trammell

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Wanamaker, John

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Proverb, American

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

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Auerbach, Red