Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Courteline, Georges

Best Quotes about Action

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Eliot, George

12.

Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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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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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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

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

18.

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

19.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

20.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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

Milea, Jinx

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Horace

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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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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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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

Hill, Napoleon

33.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

34.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

35.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

37.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

40.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

41.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

42.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

45.

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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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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

Mencken, H. L.

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