Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Mencken, H. L.

Best Quotes about Action

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Curcio, Joan L.

Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Courteline, Georges

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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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

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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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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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

24.

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

Proverb, French

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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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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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Howells, William Dean

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African