Motivational Quotes

Action

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

- Proverb, Mexican

Best Quotes about Action

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

No rules for success will work if you don't.

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

Proverb, Chinese

It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Proverb, German

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Howells, William Dean

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Wanamaker, John

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Holtz, Lou

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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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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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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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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