Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Smiles, Samuel

Best Quotes about Action

Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Holtz, Lou

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

12.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

13.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

16.

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

18.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

19.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

20.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

21.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

22.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Aikman, Leo

25.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

26.

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

Buffett, Warren

27.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

28.

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

Einstein, Albert

29.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

31.

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

Hill, Napoleon

32.

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

Levin, James

33.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

35.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

36.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

38.

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

39.

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

Aristotle

40.

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

42.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

43.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement