Motivational Quotes

Action

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

- Arendt, Hannah

Best Quotes about Action

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Courteline, Georges

Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Carlyle, Thomas

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

Horace

Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make it happen.

Iacocca, Lee

It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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

Aristotle

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Action is character.

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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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Do not ask the Lord to guide your footsteps, If you are not willing to move your feet.

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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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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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The best way to get something done is to begin.

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Now is the season for sailing; for already the chattering swallow is come and the pleasant west wind; the meadows bloom and the sea, tossed up with waves and rough blasts, has sunk to silence. Weigh thine anchors and unloose thy hawsers, O Mariner, and sail with all thy canvas set.

Tarentum, Leonidas of

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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

Schmidt, Helmut

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Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Linall Jr. A. L.

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The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as courses, and they come back to us as effects.

Melville, Herman

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I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Churchill, Winston

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Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

Gaulle, Charles De

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Let your performance do the thinking.

Brown Jr., H. Jackson

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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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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

Proverb, Chinese

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Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

Carrel, Alexis

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

Proverb, French

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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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As our case is new, we must think and act anew.

Lincoln, Abraham

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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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You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee.

Holcomb, John H.

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It is not good enough for things to be planned -- they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

Khan, Pir Vilayat

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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Dyer, Wayne

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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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Either move or be moved.

Powell, Colin

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I will act now. I will act now. I will act now. Henceforth, I will repeat these words each hour, each day, everyday, until the words become as much a habit as my breathing, and the action which follows becomes as instinctive as the blinking of my eyelids. With these words I can condition my mind to perform every action necessary for my success. I will act now. I will repeat these words again and again and again. I will walk where failures fear to walk. I will work when failures seek rest. I will act now for now is all I have. Tomorrow is the day reserved for the labor of the lazy. I am not lazy. Tomorrow is the day when the failure will succeed. I am not a failure. I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Mandino, Og

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

James, William

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Some people forget to plant in the spring, idle away the summer hours and then expect to reap in the fall.

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If you want to get along, go along.

Rayburn, Sam

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

Lord, Shirley