Motivational Quotes

Action

He who limps is still walking.

- Lec, Stanislaw J.

Best Quotes about Action

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Adams, Charles Francis

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Gracian, Baltasar

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Mother Teresa

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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.

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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The only way to start is to start.

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Some will, some don't, so what!

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

Sandburg, Carl

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

James, William

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Mencken, H. L.

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Company, Lanes

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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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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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert