Motivational Quotes

Action

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

- Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

Best Quotes about Action

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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

Confucius

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Proverb, American

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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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

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

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

24.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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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

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

39.

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

Mann, Horace

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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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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

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

Bergson, Henri L.

44.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.