Motivational Quotes

Action

Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

- Whitehead, Alfred North

Best Quotes about Action

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Croce, Benedetto

Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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

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

Bevan, Aneurin

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Balzac, Honore De

It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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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

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

21.

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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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Troward, Thomas

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Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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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

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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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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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

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Do it now! can affect every phase of your life. It can help you do the things you should do but don't feel like doing. It can keep you from procrastinating when an unpleasant duty faces you. But it can also help you do those things that you want to do. It helps you seize those precious moments that, if lost, may never be retrieved.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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.

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.