Motivational Quotes

Action

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Best Quotes about Action

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

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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 can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

Howells, William Dean

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

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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

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome. De Tocqueville points out that it is at times when passions start to govern human affairs that ideas are most obviously translated into political action. The translation of ideas into action is usually in the hands of people least likely to follow rational motives. Hence, it is that action is often the nemesis of ideas, and sometimes of the men who formulate them. One of the marks of the truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Confucius

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Shirley, James

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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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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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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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

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie