Motivational Quotes

Action

We will not know unless we begin.

- Zinn, Howard

Best Quotes about Action

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

Dhammapada

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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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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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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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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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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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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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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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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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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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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

James, William

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Levi, Peter

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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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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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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

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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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.