Motivational Quotes

Action

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

- Proverb, Mexican

Best Quotes about Action

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Saunders

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Bible

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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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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

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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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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Act, don't react!

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.