Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Sandburg, Carl

Best Quotes about Action

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

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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

Wanamaker, John

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

Edwards, Edward

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

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Clarke, James Freeman

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

Dyer, Wayne

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

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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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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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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.

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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

Marley, Bob

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Smith, Liz

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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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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Bible

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

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle