Motivational Quotes

Action

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

- Einstein, Albert

Best Quotes about Action

Act, don't react!

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

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

The only way to start is to start.

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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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

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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

28.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Action is character.

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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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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Saunders

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Shakespeare, William

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.