Motivational Quotes

Action

Effective action is always unjust.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Action

Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.

Graffiti

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

Eliot, George

You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree.

Morgan, John Pierpont

You prove your worth with your actions, not with your mouth.

Riley, Pat

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Bergson, Henri L.

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

Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old -- old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

Teekens, Inga

It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action.

Batt, Al

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

Ovid

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You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

Gerstner, Lou

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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.

Schmidt, Helmut

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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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A well begun is half ended.

Plato

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Schuller, Robert H.

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There's as much risk in doing nothing as in doing something.

Crow, Trammell

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

Proverb

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Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.

Saying, Zen

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

Proverb, Chinese

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Smiles, Samuel

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

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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

Ziglar, Zig

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When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.

Proverb, French

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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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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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A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you haven't truly decided.

Robbins, Anthony

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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Lincoln, Abraham

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It's better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.

Courteline, Georges

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Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Aurelius, Marcus

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

Proverb, Irish

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

Bible

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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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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Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.