Motivational Quotes

Action

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

- Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Best Quotes about Action

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Gerstner, Lou

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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

Horace

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

James, William

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Liter, James

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

Iacocca, Lee

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Smith, Sydney

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von