Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Action

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Carnegie, Andrew

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Horace

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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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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.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Milne, A. A.

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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

Hasselhoff, David

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Shirley, James

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, American

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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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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.

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Action is character.

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Saunders

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

Arendt, Hannah