Motivational Quotes

Action

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

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

Macdonald, George

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

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

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

20.

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

30.

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

33.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

34.

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

Eliot, George

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Horace

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

40.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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

Holtz, Lou

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor