Motivational Quotes

Action

Many are called but few get up.

- Herford, Oliver

Best Quotes about Action

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

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

If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Aurelius, Marcus

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

10.

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

Morgan, John Pierpont

11.

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

12.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

13.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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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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One mustn't allow acting to be like stockbroker -- you must not take it just as a means of earning a living, to go down every day to do a job of work. The big thing is to combine punctuality, efficiency, good nature, obedience, intelligence, and concentration with an unawareness of what is going to happen next, thus keeping yourself available for excitement.

Gielgud, John

19.

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

21.

If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

22.

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

Proverb, American

23.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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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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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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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Believe in boys and girls and men and women of a great tomorrow that what so ever the boy soweth the man shall reap.

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Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

31.

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

32.

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

Holtz, Lou

33.

We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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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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In action be primitive; in foresight, a strategist.

Char, Rene

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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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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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Gide, Andre