Motivational Quotes

Action

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

- Bacon, Francis

Best Quotes about Action

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

10.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

11.

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

12.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

13.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

18.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

21.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

23.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

24.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

27.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

28.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

29.

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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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

31.

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

Gerstner, Lou

32.

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

39.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

40.

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

Proverb, Chinese

42.

Action is character.

43.

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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Act, don't react!

45.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

Mother Teresa

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