Motivational Quotes

Action

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

Action is character.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

No rules for success will work if you don't.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

James, William

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Viscott, David

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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

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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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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

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The only way to start is to start.

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Evans, Richard L.

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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

Sher, Barbara

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Eliot, George

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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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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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.