Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Collingwood, Robin G.

Best Quotes about Action

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Mann, Horace

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

South, Bishop Robert

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Sher, Barbara

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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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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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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

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

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

Horace

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og