Motivational Quotes

Action

Some will, some don't, so what!

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

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

Lincoln, Abraham

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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

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

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Hubbard, Kin

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Act, don't react!

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mother Teresa

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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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 will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement