Motivational Quotes

Action

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

- Ennius, Quintus

Best Quotes about Action

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Levin, James

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

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

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Saunders

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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

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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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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

Holtz, Lou

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

Holtz, Lou

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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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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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.