Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Bowkett, Chris

Best Quotes about Action

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Smith, Liz

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Marley, Bob

10.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

11.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

12.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

13.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

15.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

18.

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

20.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

24.

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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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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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

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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

30.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Shakespeare, William

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

38.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

39.

It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

40.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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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

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

44.

Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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, don't react!