Motivational Quotes

Action

From small beginnings come great things.

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Edwards, Edward

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Clarke, James Freeman

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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

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

Lu Xun

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Shakespeare, William

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Eliot, George

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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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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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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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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

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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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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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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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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David