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

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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

Einstein, Albert

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Galsworthy, John

One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Proverb, Chinese

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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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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

21.

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

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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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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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 will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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

Curcio, Joan L.

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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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

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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

Holtz, Lou

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Shirley, James

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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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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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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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