Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Wilde, Oscar

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Action is character.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Lord, Shirley

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Act, don't react!

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

Rogers, Will

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Horace

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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

Sher, Barbara