Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Roosevelt, Franklin D.

Best Quotes about Action

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

The only way to start is to start.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Balzac, Honore De

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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Greene, Robert

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

Arendt, Hannah

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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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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Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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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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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William