Motivational Quotes

Action

A well begun is half ended.

- Plato

Best Quotes about Action

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Galsworthy, John

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Ross, Percy

No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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

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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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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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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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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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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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

Shirley, James

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Do it now. Then it's done.

32.

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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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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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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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