Motivational Quotes

Action

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Best Quotes about Action

To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Levin, James

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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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.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Plutarch

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

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

Gaulle, Charles De

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Activity and sadness are incompatible.

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As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

Upanishads, Veda

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Proverb, French

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

Robbins, Anthony

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

Perot, H. Ross

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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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Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.

Milne, A. A.

32.

One of the best lessons children learn through video games is standing still will get them killed quicker than anything else.

Milea, Jinx

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That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

James, William

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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Bronte, Charlotte

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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Mencken, H. L.

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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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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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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

Proverb, Ibo

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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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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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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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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

49.

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius