Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Evans, Richard L.

Best Quotes about Action

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.

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

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

Be both the gardener and the rose.

No rules for success will work if you don't.

Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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

Viscott, David

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

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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

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Act, don't react!

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Graffiti

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Action is character.

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

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Lu Xun

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Proverb, Italian

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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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