Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

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

Picasso, Pablo

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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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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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Jacobs, Joseph

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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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

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Proverb, French

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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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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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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