Motivational Quotes

Action

Effective action is always unjust.

- Anouilh, Jean

Best Quotes about Action

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement.

Gramsci, Antonio

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

Einstein, Albert

Heaven never helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

Einstein, Albert

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

Crow, Trammell

Let every man or woman here, if you never hear me again, remember this, that if you wish to be great at all, you must begin where you are and with what you are. He who would be great anywhere must first be great in his own Philadelphia.

Conwell, Russel H.

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

James, William

11.

Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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Next in importance to having a good aim is to recognize when to pull the trigger.

Letterman, Elmer G.

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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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Act, don't react!

16.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

Mother Teresa

18.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

Richards, Mary Caroline

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

Pilgrim, Peace

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

23.

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

Eliot, George

24.

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

Smith, Liz

25.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Kelland, Clarence Buddinton

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If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

James, William

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Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Wordsworth, William

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The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving.

Quarles, Francis

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

Amiel, Henri Frederic

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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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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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Big words seldom accompany good deeds.

Proverb, Danish

33.

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

Saunders

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Act, if you like, but you do it at your peril. Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.

Roger, John

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

Schwarzkopf, Norman

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

Bible

42.

Act quickly, think slowly.

Proverb, Greek

43.

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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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.

Collier, Robert

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When a man dies, what does not leave him? The voice of a dead man goes into fire, his breath into wind, his eyes into the sun, his mind into the moon, his hearing into the quarters of heaven, his body into the land cheerfully. earth, his spirit into space

Upanishads, Veda

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Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Edison, Thomas A.

49.

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

Ziglar, Zig

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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

Proverb, Mexican