Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Holtz, Lou

Best Quotes about Action

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

Shakespeare, William

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

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Lu Xun

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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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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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Ennius, Quintus

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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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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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