Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

10.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

11.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

12.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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

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

Milne, A. A.

15.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

16.

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

17.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

18.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Mexican

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

27.

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

28.

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

31.

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

32.

Do it now. Then it's done.

33.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

34.

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.

35.

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

Roger, John

36.

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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

Hasselhoff, David

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

44.

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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Horace

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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