Motivational Quotes

Action

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Action

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.

You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Howells, William Dean

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

10.

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

Courteline, Georges

11.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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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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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

32.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

39.

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

40.

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

Mann, Horace

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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

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

Buffett, Warren

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt