Motivational Quotes

Action

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Action

Do it now. Then it's done.

Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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

Batt, Al

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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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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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