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

The only way to start is to start.

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Viscott, David

He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

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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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Grant, Heber J.

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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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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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If your sword's too short, add to its length by taking one step forward.

22.

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre

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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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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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Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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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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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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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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Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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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 not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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

Marley, Bob

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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