Motivational Quotes

Action

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Action

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Green, Dennis

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Bible

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Dyer, Wayne

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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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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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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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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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 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.