Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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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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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

Horace

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

James, William

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

22.

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

Proverb, French

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Cass, Lewis

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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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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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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 ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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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 vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Viscott, David

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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

Saunders

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