Motivational Quotes

Action

Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

- Paterno, Joe

Best Quotes about Action

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

Ross, Percy

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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

Proverb, Chinese

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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 will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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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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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Sandburg, Carl

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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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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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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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert