Motivational Quotes

Action

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

- Proverb, Ibo

Best Quotes about Action

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Holtz, Lou

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Action is character.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Proverb, American

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The only way to start is to start.

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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

Lowenstein, John

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Iacocca, Lee

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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