Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Best Quotes about Action

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

South, Bishop Robert

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Bible

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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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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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Holtz, Lou

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Riley, Pat

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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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Curcio, Joan L.

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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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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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Proverb, Mexican