Motivational Quotes

Action

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

- Lu Xun

Best Quotes about Action

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Dyer, Wayne

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Horace

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Pauling, Linus

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

11.

You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Batt, Al

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Milne, A. A.

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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

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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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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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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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Act, don't react!

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Proverb, Mexican

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

Proverb, Italian

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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

Confucius

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The only way to start is to start.

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

Company, Lanes

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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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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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

James, William

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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 want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English