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

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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

Edwards, Edward

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Balzac, Honore De

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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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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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

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

James, William

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Adams, Charles Francis

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace