Motivational Quotes

Action

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Action

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Shakespeare, William

No rules for success will work if you don't.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Eliot, George

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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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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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

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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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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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Green, Dennis

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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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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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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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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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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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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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.