Motivational Quotes

Action

From small beginnings come great things.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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

Proverb, Chinese

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Proverb

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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 don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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

Allen, Loius A.

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Eliot, George

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The only way to start is to start.

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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Ross, Percy

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Picasso, Pablo