Motivational Quotes

Action

The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

- Green, Dennis

Best Quotes about Action

People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

Act, don't react!

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

11.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

13.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Lu Xun

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Action is character.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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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.

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

Shirley, James

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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The only way to start is to start.

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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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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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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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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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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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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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

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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

Cass, Lewis

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Einstein, Albert