Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Wanamaker, John

Best Quotes about Action

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Ross, Percy

No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

11.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

12.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

13.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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

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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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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

18.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Einstein, Albert

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

24.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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

Quarles, Francis

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Wanamaker, John

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

Picasso, Pablo