Motivational Quotes

Action

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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

Gerstner, Lou

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

South, Bishop Robert

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

What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

10.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Courteline, Georges

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Cass, Lewis

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

Saunders

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

39.

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

Marley, Bob

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

43.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

44.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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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

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Einstein, Albert