Motivational Quotes

Action

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

Best Quotes about Action

You can't aim a duck to death.

Boardman, Gael

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

Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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

Lu Xun

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do, if it were my last of life.

Edwards, Edward

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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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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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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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The view only changes for the lead dog.

Sergeant Preston of The Yukon

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You don't always win your battles, but it's good to know you fought.

Holmes, Marjorie

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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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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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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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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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A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Angelou, Maya

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

Aikman, Leo

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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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Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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

26.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Viscott, David

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Allen, Loius A.

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Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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He who limps is still walking.

Lec, Stanislaw J.

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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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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You can never get enough of the things you don't need, because the things you don't need can never satisfy.

Ashton, Marvin J.

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To talk goodness is not good... only to do it is.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.