Motivational Quotes

Action

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Dyer, Wayne

Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Plutarch

When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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

Eliot, George

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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

11.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

12.

A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

13.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

19.

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

20.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

21.

Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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

Ennius, Quintus

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

26.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

27.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

28.

The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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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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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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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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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

33.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

34.

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

35.

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

36.

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

38.

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

Sher, Barbara

39.

I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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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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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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

Bible

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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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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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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Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas