Motivational Quotes

Action

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

- James, William

Best Quotes about Action

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

11.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Sandburg, Carl

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

South, Bishop Robert

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

17.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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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

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

24.

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Proverb

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Milne, A. A.

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

30.

Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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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

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

33.

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

Holtz, Lou

34.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

37.

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

38.

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

39.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

40.

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

41.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Ovid

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Arendt, Hannah

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.