Motivational Quotes

Action

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

- Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

Best Quotes about Action

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

Warford, Rita

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Saunders

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

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

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

Holcomb, John H.

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

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

19.

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

20.

Do it now. Then it's done.

21.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

28.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

30.

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

Aristotle

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

32.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

33.

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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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.

36.

Be both the gardener and the rose.

37.

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

38.

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

South, Bishop Robert

41.

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

42.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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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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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.