Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Rohn, Jim

Best Quotes about Action

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Eliot, George

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

Saunders

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

Saying, Zen

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

14.

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

15.

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

16.

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

17.

You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

18.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

20.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

21.

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

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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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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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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Holcomb, John H.

27.

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

Bible

28.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

29.

Activity and sadness are incompatible.

30.

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

31.

Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

32.

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

33.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

34.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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.

36.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

37.

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

Warford, Rita

38.

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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What you are will show in what you do.