Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Warford, Rita

Best Quotes about Action

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

Liter, James

Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

Act, don't react!

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

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

Wanamaker, John

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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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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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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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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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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

30.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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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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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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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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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

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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

Levin, James

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

44.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Cass, Lewis

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The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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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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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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

Gaulle, Charles De