Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Levin, James

Best Quotes about Action

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Hutcheson, Francis

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

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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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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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Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou