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 like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Hasselhoff, David

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Wanamaker, John

Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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Act, don't react!

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Lord, Shirley

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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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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Evans, Richard L.

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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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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

Allen, Loius A.

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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The only way to start is to start.

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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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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Action is character.

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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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

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

Arendt, Hannah

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George