Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Disraeli, Benjamin

Best Quotes about Action

Be both the gardener and the rose.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Carrel, Alexis

Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.

Landon, Michael

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

Aristotle

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar

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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.

Havel, Vaclav

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

Company, Lanes

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

Viscott, David

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In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Kushner, Rabbi Harold S.

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

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

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

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

Lowenstein, John

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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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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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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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Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our own deeds.

Cervantes, Miguel De

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We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

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Action is character.

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Brown, Les

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

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Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Hill, Napoleon

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Smiles, Samuel

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You can't start at the top.