Motivational Quotes

Action

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

- Turner, Ted

Best Quotes about Action

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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

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

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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

Milea, Jinx

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Smith, Liz

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Act, don't react!

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

Aristotle

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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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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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Eliot, George

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

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

Maharshi, Ramana

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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.