Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

- Jerome, St.

Best Quotes about Action

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Holtz, Lou

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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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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

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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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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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

31.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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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

35.

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

Picasso, Pablo

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.