Motivational Quotes

Action

The view only changes for the lead dog.

- Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

Best Quotes about Action

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Milea, Jinx

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Rogers, Will

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

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

10.

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

Macdonald, George

11.

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

12.

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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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

15.

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

16.

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

17.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

20.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

21.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

22.

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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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

25.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

26.

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

Wanamaker, John

28.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

29.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

30.

One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Proverb, Chinese

33.

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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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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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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

37.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

38.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

39.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

40.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

41.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

42.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

43.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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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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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

49.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur