Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Horace

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

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Liter, James

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Confucius

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Ziglar, Zig

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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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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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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

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

Saunders

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

James, William

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

Hasselhoff, David

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Holtz, Lou

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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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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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis