Motivational Quotes

Action

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

- Bevan, Aneurin

Best Quotes about Action

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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

Buffett, Warren

All the reputedly powerful reactionaries are merely paper tigers. The reason is that they are divorced from the people. Look! Was not Hitler a paper tiger? Was Hitler not overthrown? U.S. imperialism has not yet been overthrown and it has the atomic bomb. I believe it also will be overthrown. It, too, is a paper tiger.

Zedong, Mao

The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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

Iacocca, Lee

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

Courteline, Georges

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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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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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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The soul is made for action, and cannot rest till it be employed. Idleness is its rust. Unless it will up and think and taste and see, all is in vain.

Traherne, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

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It's easy to work for somebody else; all you have to do is show up.

Warford, Rita

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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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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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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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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Curcio, Joan L.

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Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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Do it this very moment, Don't put it off, There's no use in doing a kindness, if you do it a day too late.

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

Holtz, Lou

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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

Grant, Heber J.

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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

Dyer, Wayne

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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