Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Saunders

Best Quotes about Action

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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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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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

23.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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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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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

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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One of the marks of a 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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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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Act, don't react!

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Bible

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Levin, James

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Gaulle, Charles De