Motivational Quotes

Action

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

- Paterno, Joe

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, English

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Action is character.

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Auerbach, Red

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

Eliot, George

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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

Holtz, Lou

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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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 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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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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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph