Motivational Quotes

Action

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

- Char, Rene

Best Quotes about Action

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Viscott, David

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Dyer, Wayne

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.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Sandburg, Carl

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Courteline, Georges

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Mann, Horace

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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas