Motivational Quotes

Action

To begin, begin.

- Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Best Quotes about Action

In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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

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

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Cass, Lewis

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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

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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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

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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

James, William

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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Liter, James

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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

Proverb, Ibo

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

Segal, Ronald

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.