Motivational Quotes

Action

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Action

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

Aurelius, Marcus

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Pilgrim, Peace

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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

Dyer, Wayne

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

10.

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

Gerstner, Lou

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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Evans, Richard L.

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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Lord, Shirley

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Inge, Dean William R.

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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

Batt, Al

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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

Holmes, Marjorie

34.

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

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

41.

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

Einstein, Albert

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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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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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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I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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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