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

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Iacocca, Lee

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

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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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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Proverb, Chinese

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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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The only way to start is to start.

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

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

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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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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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

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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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

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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