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

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.

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Liter, James

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

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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.

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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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

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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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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Horace

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Carrel, Alexis

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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