Motivational Quotes

Action

Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Action

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

Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Liter, James

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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

Holtz, Lou

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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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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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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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

Proverb, Irish

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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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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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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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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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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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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Edwards, Edward

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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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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Lu Xun

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og