Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Hutcheson, Francis

Best Quotes about Action

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

South, Bishop Robert

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Aristotle

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

Lu Xun

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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 us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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

Horace

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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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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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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Mencken, H. L.