Motivational Quotes

Action

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

- Auerbach, Red

Best Quotes about Action

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

Proverb, American

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

Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

It isn't sufficient just to want -- you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Rosen, Richard D.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Picasso, Pablo

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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Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Buffett, Warren

11.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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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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All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

25.

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

Marley, Bob

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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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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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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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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

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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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

Green, Dennis

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You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

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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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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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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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

45.

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

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

Saunders

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard