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

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

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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

Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

Dyer, Wayne

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

Proverb, German

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

Horace

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Proverb, Irish

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A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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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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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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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

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

Pancoast, Mal

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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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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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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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.

Hansen, Mark Victor

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

Hasselhoff, David

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Don't think, just do.

Horton, Reiko

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Try and trust will move mountains.

Proverb

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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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

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

Collingwood, Robin G.

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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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If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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

Bible

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The common conception is that motivation leads to action, but the reverse is true -- action precedes motivation. You have to prime the pump and get the juice flowing, which motivates you to work on your goals. Getting momentum going is the most difficult part of the job, and often taking the first step is enough to prompt you to make the best of your day.

Mckain, Robert J.

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What really matters is what you do with what you have.

Lord, Shirley

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If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.

Townsend, Robert

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Only the actions of the just smell sweet and blossom in the dust.

Shirley, James

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

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A man of action forced into a state of thought is unhappy until he can get out of it.

Galsworthy, John

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Anything you do can get you fired; this includes doing nothing.

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

Whitehead, Alfred North

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Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.

Croce, Benedetto