Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, Irish

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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

Lowenstein, John

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Proverb, German

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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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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 pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Horace

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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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

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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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Holtz, Lou

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Carrel, Alexis

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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

Holtz, Lou

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Holcomb, John H.

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.