Motivational Quotes

Action

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

- Adams, Charles Francis

Best Quotes about Action

The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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

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

Company, Lanes

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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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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

18.

The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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

Saunders

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

22.

Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

23.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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

Franklin, Benjamin

29.

It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

Proverb, French

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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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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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Proverb, American

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

41.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

44.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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Do it now. Then it's done.

49.

You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Greene, Robert