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

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

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.

Do it now. Then it's done.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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.

Two-thirds of promotion is motion

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Saunders

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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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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Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

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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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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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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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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pauling, Linus

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

Mother Teresa

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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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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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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

James, William

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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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Good things happen to those who hustle.