Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Adams, Charles Francis

As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Ovid

If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

11.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

17.

Act, don't react!

18.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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.

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

26.

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Ibo

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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.