Motivational Quotes

Action

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

- Proverb, Mexican

Best Quotes about Action

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Einstein, Albert

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the 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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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The only way to start is to start.

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Saunders

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

Saying, Zen

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.