Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Action

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

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

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

Hazlitt, William

Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Proverb, American

10.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

11.

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Confucius

13.

What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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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.

15.

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

18.

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

Bergson, Henri L.

19.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Shakespeare, William

21.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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.

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

28.

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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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

30.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

31.

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

32.

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

Bowkett, Chris

34.

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

36.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

Howells, William Dean

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

43.

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

Hutcheson, Francis

44.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

45.

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.