Motivational Quotes

Action

No one will do it for you.

- Stein, Ben

Best Quotes about Action

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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

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

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

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.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Do it now. Then it's done.

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

Einstein, Albert

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The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

Gracian, Baltasar

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'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

Eliot, George

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

Sher, Barbara

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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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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

James, William

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Act, don't react!

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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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

Sartre, Jean-Paul

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

Lord, Shirley

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Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

Ovid

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The secret of getting things done is to act!

David, Benjamin O.

27.

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

Holtz, Lou

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

Hugo, Victor

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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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One thought driven home is better than three left on base.

Liter, James

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I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

James, William

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My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

34.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Hasselhoff, David

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation.

Aquinas, St. Thomas

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

Proverb, Irish

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Let your actions always speak for you, but be forever on guard against the terrible traps of false pride and conceit that can halt your progress. The next time you are tempted to boast, just place your fist in a full pail of water, and when you remove it, the hole remaining will give you a correct measure of your importance.

Mandino, Og

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

Ovid

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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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Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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Two-thirds of promotion is motion

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Auerbach, Red

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Do Something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last --but eat you he will.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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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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Keep your head and your heart going in the right direction and you will not have to worry about your feet.