Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

- Jerome, St.

Best Quotes about Action

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Letterman, Elmer G.

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.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Mother Teresa

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

Einstein, Albert

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Lu Xun

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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

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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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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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

Quarles, Francis

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One of the marks of a 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

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.