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

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

Dimaggio, Joe

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.

Collier, Robert

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

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

Eliot, George

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

Proverb, English

What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

Have a bias toward action -- let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Thalheimer, Richard

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People say to me, You were a roaring success. How did you do it? I go back to what my parents taught me. Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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

Riley, Pat

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Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Wilde, Oscar

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Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.

Company, Lanes

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The search for the perfect venture can turn into procrastination. Your idea may or may not have merit. The key is to get started.

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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.

Vinet

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The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

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Action is the real measure of intelligence.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand -- and melting like a snowflake.

Ray, Marie Beyon

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Oh, I'm not going to do anything to them. The thought that I might will be enough to keep them going.

Bowkett, Chris

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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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Teachers open the door but you must walk through it yourself.

Proverb, Chinese

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It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

Ching Ning Chu

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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

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Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

Confucius

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

James, William

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Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Aurelius, Marcus

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Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

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There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is on a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

Graham, Martha

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.

Stone, W. Clement

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It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Batt, Al

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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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Winning starts with beginning.

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Robbins, Anthony

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Mark this well, you proud men of action! you are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

Heine, Heinrich

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There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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