Motivational Quotes

Action

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

- Nehru, Jawaharlal

Best Quotes about Action

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

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

Horace

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Green, Dennis

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Lowenstein, John

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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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

12.

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

13.

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Croce, Benedetto

18.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

19.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

20.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

21.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

24.

Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

26.

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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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

30.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

Clarke, James Freeman

33.

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

35.

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

Confucius

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

40.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

41.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

42.

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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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

44.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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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