Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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

Confucius

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

13.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

14.

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

17.

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

Proverb, German

18.

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

Marley, Bob

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

25.

As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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

27.

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

28.

What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

29.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Holtz, Lou

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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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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

34.

Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Lord, Shirley

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

Shirley, James

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

Auerbach, Red

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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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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

41.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

44.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally