Motivational Quotes

Action

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.

Best Quotes about Action

Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Marley, Bob

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Company, Lanes

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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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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Arendt, Hannah

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We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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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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If you start soon enough, you won't have to run to catch up.

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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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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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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

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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike you, do not wait until he has struck before you crush him.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.

South, Bishop Robert

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It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

Nin, Anais

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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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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

Bible

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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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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Act like you expect to get into the end zone.

Paterno, Joe

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.