Motivational Quotes

Action

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Action

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

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Shakespeare, William

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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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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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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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Sher, Barbara

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Mother Teresa

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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