Motivational Quotes

Action

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

- Adams, Charles Francis

Best Quotes about Action

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Gaulle, Charles De

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Long, Haniel

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

We will not know unless we begin.

Zinn, Howard

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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

Saunders

Sings. Hope in every sphere of life is a privilege that attaches to action. No action, no hope.

Levi, Peter

Reactionary: A man walking backwards with his face to the future.

Bevan, Aneurin

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

Sher, Barbara

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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.

11.

How long will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?

Marley, Bob

12.

Good things happen to those who hustle.

Noll, Chuck

13.

Begin somewhere: you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Smith, Liz

14.

That spot of earth has special charms for me, in which a limited income produces happiness, and moderate wealth abundance.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

15.

Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.

Wattles, Wallace D.

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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Viscott, David

18.

He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

Clarke, James Freeman

19.

Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing.

Letterman, David

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.

Vivekananda, Swami

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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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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Hill, Napoleon

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Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

Malraux, Andre

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The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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

Smiles, Samuel

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

James, William

30.

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

Pancoast, Mal

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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

32.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

Proudhon, Pierre Joseph

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

Hasselhoff, David

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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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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. [James 1:22]

Bible

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Do the things you know, and you shall learn the truth you need to know.

Macdonald, George

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Lord, Shirley

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Some will, some don't, so what!

Proverb, American

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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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When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, Action, Action, Action.

Plutarch

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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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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice.

Pilgrim, Peace

47.

Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read; and the

Pike, Albert

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Churchill, Winston

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin