Motivational Quotes

Action

The greatest step is out the door.

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Action

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Bevan, Aneurin

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

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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One of the marks of a 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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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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

Roger, John

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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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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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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Act, don't react!

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Proverb, Irish

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon