Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

Courteline, Georges

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.

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Hill, Napoleon

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Let us be tried by our actions.

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