Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Lu Xun

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

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

Proverb, English

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

Picasso, Pablo

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

Sandburg, Carl

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Be both the gardener and the rose.

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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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

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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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

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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

Lowenstein, John

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid