Motivational Quotes

Action

What we need is to use what we have.

- Walsh, Basil S.

Best Quotes about Action

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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

Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

Aikman, Leo

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

Quarles, Francis

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

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

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

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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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

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From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

Edison, Thomas A.

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

Mann, Horace

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The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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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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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Milne, A. A.

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The person who doesn't scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs

Proverb, Irish

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

Sher, Barbara

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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

Aristotle

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

Hasselhoff, David

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Gide, Andre

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Stone, W. Clement

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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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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Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

Mother Teresa