Motivational Quotes

Action

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Confucius

Do it now. Then it's done.

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

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.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Dyer, Wayne

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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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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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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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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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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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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No sooner said than done -- so acts your man of worth.

Ennius, Quintus

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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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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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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa

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

Macdonald, George

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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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

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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

Wanamaker, John

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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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

Holtz, Lou

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

James, William

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman