Motivational Quotes

Action

When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Action

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Quarles, Francis

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Einstein, Albert

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Croce, Benedetto

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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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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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

Bible

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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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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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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Act, don't react!

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.