Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

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

Levi, Peter

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

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

Proverb, French

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

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

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Company, Lanes

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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Just as there is no loss of basic energy in the universe, so no thought or action is without its effects, present or ultimate, seen or unseen, felt or unfelt.

Cousins, Norman

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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The successful men of action are not sufficiently self-observant to know exactly on what their success depends.

Jacobs, Joseph

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Ennius, Quintus

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.