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

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Allen, Loius A.

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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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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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Saunders

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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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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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Bible

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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

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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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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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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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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

Marley, Bob

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The only way to start is to start.

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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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

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck