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

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Pilgrim, Peace

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

11.

He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

18.

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

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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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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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

Wanamaker, John

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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

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto

25.

Action is character.

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Bergson, Henri L.

28.

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

Eliot, George

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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

32.

Backbone beats wishbone every time.

33.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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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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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese