Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Rogers, Will

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Aristotle

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Milne, A. A.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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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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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

South, Bishop Robert

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Mencken, H. L.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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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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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Macdonald, George

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Green, Dennis

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.