Motivational Quotes

Action

If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

- Townsend, Robert

Best Quotes about Action

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

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

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Company, Lanes

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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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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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

Fichte, Johann G.

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

28.

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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Ennius, Quintus

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

Shirley, James

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

46.

I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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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