Motivational Quotes

Action

We will not know unless we begin.

- Zinn, Howard

Best Quotes about Action

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Action is character.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Batt, Al

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Green, Dennis

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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.