Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Rogers, Will

Best Quotes about Action

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

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Evans, Richard L.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

11.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Macdonald, George

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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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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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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

Green, Dennis

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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

Bible

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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 action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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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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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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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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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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

Lu Xun

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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

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

47.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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.