Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Action

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Sher, Barbara

Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Rohn, Jim

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Smith, Liz

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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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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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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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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

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Croce, Benedetto

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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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

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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

Milne, A. A.

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Sandburg, Carl

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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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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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

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