Motivational Quotes

Action

The only way to start is to start.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Action

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

24.

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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

28.

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

Crow, Trammell

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

Einstein, Albert

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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

Proverb

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

42.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel