Motivational Quotes

Action

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

- Lincoln, Abraham

Best Quotes about Action

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

Arendt, Hannah

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Eliot, George

A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us.

Einstein, Albert

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

Action expresses priorities.

Garfield, Charles A.

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

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

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Ovid

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

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

Carnegie, Andrew

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The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Berger, Sally

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Lord, Shirley

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For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

Greene, Robert

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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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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Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Canfield, Jack

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

Hutcheson, Francis

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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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Effective action is always unjust.

Anouilh, Jean

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

25.

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

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Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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

Bruyere, Jean De La

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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

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A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

Clemenceau, Georges

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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

Arendt, Hannah

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

Proverb, Chinese

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

Proverb, Italian

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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Talk doesn't cook rice.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Pine, Arthur

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Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.

Fichte, Johann G.

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Don't be a spectator, don't let life pass you by.

Holtz, Lou

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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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When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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

Edwards, Edward

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Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.

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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 keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

Disney, Walt

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Speak out in acts; the time for words has passed, and only deeds will suffice.

Whittier, John Greenleaf

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman