Motivational Quotes

Action

We will not know unless we begin.

- Zinn, Howard

Best Quotes about Action

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

Holtz, Lou

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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.

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

Wilde, Oscar

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

11.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

12.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Evans, Richard L.

20.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Shakespeare, William

23.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

24.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

25.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

26.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

27.

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

28.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

46.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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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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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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.