Motivational Quotes

Action

The secret of getting things done is to act!

- David, Benjamin O.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Levin, James

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Marley, Bob

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

10.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

11.

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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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

15.

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

16.

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

17.

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

Bible

18.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

19.

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

20.

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

21.

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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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

25.

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

26.

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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

28.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

29.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

30.

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

Greene, Robert

32.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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

Howells, William Dean

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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

36.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Arendt, Hannah

38.

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.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

40.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Ovid

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

44.

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

45.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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

49.

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

Sher, Barbara

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

Allen, Loius A.