Motivational Quotes

Action

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

- Proverb, Mexican

Best Quotes about Action

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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

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

Proverb, Chinese

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

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.

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

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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

Proverb, American

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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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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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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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

James, William

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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