Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

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

Evans, Richard L.

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

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

Hutcheson, Francis

Be both the gardener and the rose.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Proverb, Mexican

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Shakespeare, William

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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

Green, Dennis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Ovid

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.