Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Ziglar, Zig

Best Quotes about Action

Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

Picasso, Pablo

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isn't a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Clemenceau, Georges

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

The person of intellect is lost unless they unite with energy of character. When we have the lantern of Diogenese we must also have his staff.

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De

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

Bible

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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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Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.

Saunders

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You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

Hazlitt, William

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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

Einstein, Albert

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Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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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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You can't start at the top.

Levenson, Samuel

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You don't have to get it right the first time.

Sher, Barbara

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As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do.

Carnegie, Andrew

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What you are will show in what you do.

Edison, Thomas A.

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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Milne, A. A.

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The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Proverb, Chinese

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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.

Curcio, Joan L.

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Lu Xun

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This body, full of faults, has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Nagarjuna, Siddha

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

Troward, Thomas

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Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Proverb, Italian

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Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Viscott, David

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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I like these words -- they seem to suggest action: If you hear a kind word spoken Of some worthy soul you know, It may fill his heart with sunshine If you'd only tell him so. If a deed, however humble, helps you On your way to go, Seek the one whose hand has helped you. Seek him out and tell him so. If your heart is touched and tender Towards sinner log and low, It might help him to do better If you could only tell him so.

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

Proverb, American

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

D'Alembert

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