Motivational Quotes

Action

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

- Turner, Ted

Best Quotes about Action

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Wilde, Oscar

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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

11.

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

12.

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

13.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

14.

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

15.

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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

Balzac, Honore De

19.

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

Dyer, Wayne

20.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

21.

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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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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

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

Howells, William Dean

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

26.

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

27.

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

29.

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

30.

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

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People sitting on top of the world, usually arrived there standing up.

32.

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

33.

As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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

Roger, John

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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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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

39.

Act, don't react!

40.

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

Smiles, Samuel

41.

The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

43.

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

44.

Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

45.

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

Proverb, French

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often