Motivational Quotes

Action

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

- Troward, Thomas

Best Quotes about Action

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.

Allen, Loius A.

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

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

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

Allow motion to equal emotion.

Hubbard, Elbert

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

Aristotle

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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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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Rogers, Will

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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

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

Mencken, H. L.

16.

You have to be before you can do, and do before you can have.

Ziglar, Zig

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

Bible

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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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

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Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.

Collingwood, Robin G.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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Solve it. Solve it quickly, solve it right or wrong. If you solve it wrong, it will come back and slap you in the face, and then you can solve it right. Lying dead in the water and doing nothing is a comfortable alternative because it is without risk, but it is an absolutely fatal way to manage a business.

Watson, Thomas J.

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A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Calvin, John

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You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

33.

Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

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All rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full.

Bible

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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 will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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

Gandhi, Mahatma

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Backbone beats wishbone every time.

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We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

Eliot, Sir John

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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

Maharshi, Ramana

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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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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.