Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Wordsworth, William

Best Quotes about Action

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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

Proverb, Mexican

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

Hasselhoff, David

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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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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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

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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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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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Irish

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders