Motivational Quotes

Action

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

- Berger, Sally

Best Quotes about Action

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Picasso, Pablo

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Howells, William Dean

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, American

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Action is character.

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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar