Motivational Quotes

Action

Those old faces, in Pasadena, California, and Tucson, Arizona, and Dallas, crumpling in hatred and fear at the mention of the United Nations or those liberals in government who constitute for them the fifth column of communism, yearn for an America that is as far from the society of the present as is the extended family system in village India.

- Segal, Ronald

Best Quotes about Action

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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

Franklin, Benjamin

Do it now. Then it's done.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck

Hasselhoff, David

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Pound, Ezra

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, American

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

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He who strikes first, strikes twice.

Proverb, Mexican

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Iacocca, Lee

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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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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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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

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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

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You have to make it happen.

Greene, Joe

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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The only way to start is to start.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Holtz, Lou

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

Frieseke, Frederick (Carl)

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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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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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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

Evans, Richard L.

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You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving.

Francis De Sales, St.

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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The odds of hitting your target go up dramatically when you aim at it.

Pancoast, Mal

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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 greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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So what do we do? Anything. Something. So long as we just don't sit there. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else. If we wait until we've satisfied all the uncertainties, it may be too late.

Iacocca, Lee

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You will never win if you never begin.

Schuller, Robert H.