Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Dyer, Wayne

Best Quotes about Action

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

Iacocca, Lee

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

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

He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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

Proverb, Mexican

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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

Picasso, Pablo

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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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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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

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Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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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.

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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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It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.

Ross, Percy

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

Bible

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

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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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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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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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

Green, Dennis