Motivational Quotes

Action

Some will, some don't, so what!

- Proverb, American

Best Quotes about Action

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

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

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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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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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Proverb

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

Saying, Zen

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Pilgrim, Peace

35.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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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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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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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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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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