Motivational Quotes

Action

Act quickly, think slowly.

- Proverb, Greek

Best Quotes about Action

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

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

Wanamaker, John

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

The best way to get something done is to begin.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Dyer, Wayne

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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Levin, James

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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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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Saying, Zen

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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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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

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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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 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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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les