Motivational Quotes

Action

The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Best Quotes about Action

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Many have too much, but none enough.

Proverb, Danish

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Proverb, Mexican

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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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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Adams, Charles Francis

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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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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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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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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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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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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To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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

Bronowski, Jacob

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What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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

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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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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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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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

Bible

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.