Motivational Quotes

Action

You can't start at the top.

- Levenson, Samuel

Best Quotes about Action

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Brown, Les

There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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

Your difficulty and my difficulty and the difficulty of every individual who ever desired to achieve something worthwhile, comes in the movement.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

One of the marks of a truly vigorous society is the ability to dispense with passion as a midwife of action --the ability to pass directly from thought to action.

Hoffer, Eric

Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

12.

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

Proverb, German

13.

You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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The ancestor of every action is thought.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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

Confucius

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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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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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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 will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is no use trying, said Alice; one can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Carroll, Lewis

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.