Motivational Quotes

Action

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

- Marden, Orison Swett

Best Quotes about Action

A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Grant, Heber J.

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

Robbins, Anthony

The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

The best way to get something done is to begin.

The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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

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The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.

Green, Dennis

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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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

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Iacocca, Lee

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A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you're not enough without the medal, you'll never be enough with it.

Movie, Cool Runnings

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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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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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Picasso, Pablo

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You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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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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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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In our era, the road to holiness necessarily passes through the world of action.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

Saunders

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

Sandburg, Carl

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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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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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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

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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

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Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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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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Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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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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Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.