Motivational Quotes

Action

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

- Levi, Peter

Best Quotes about Action

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

The only way to start is to start.

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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 best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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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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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Wanamaker, John

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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

Milne, A. A.

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

43.

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Company, Lanes

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John