Motivational Quotes

Action

Action makes more fortune than caution.

- Clapiers, Luc De

Best Quotes about Action

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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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

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Hazlitt, William

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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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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

23.

The only way to start is to start.

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

Saunders

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Mann, Horace

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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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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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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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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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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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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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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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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Act, don't react!

49.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman