Motivational Quotes

Action

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about 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

No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

The best way to get something done is to begin.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Milne, A. A.

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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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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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

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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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Green, Dennis

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

Bible

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Smith, Liz

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese