Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Action

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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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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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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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The only way to start is to start.

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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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

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

Ross, Percy

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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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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lord, Shirley

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

37.

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

Proverb, American

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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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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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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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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David