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

From small beginnings come great things.

Proverb, American

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

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

James, William

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Pauling, Linus

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

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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

Levi, Peter

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Eliot, George

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

Bevan, Aneurin

Don't look back, just keep on walking.

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Action makes more fortune than caution.

Clapiers, Luc De

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

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Some people grin and bear it; others smile and do it.

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To begin, begin.

Zarlenga, Peter Nivio

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It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entirely what is done.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

Lewis, Harvey Spencer

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Garibaldi, Giuseppe

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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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Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

Roosevelt, Theodore

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

Adams, Charles Francis

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We are taught by great actions that the universe is the property of every individual in it.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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No rules for success will work if you don't.

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Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Balzac, Honore De

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I didn't think; I experimented.

Roentgen, Wilhelm

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

Iacocca, Lee

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All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [Matthew 7:12]

Bible

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

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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It is better to rust out than wear out.

Whitefield, George

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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

Howells, William Dean

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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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If you act like you know what you're doing, you can do anything you want -- except neurosurgery.

Lowenstein, John

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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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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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What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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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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Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Turner, Ted

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Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute; What you can do, or dream you can, begin it.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Bible

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Existence was given us for action. Our worth is determined by the good deed we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel,

Magnin, Edgar F.

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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He is rich that is satisfied.

Fuller, Thomas

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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk -- and to act.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

James, William

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

Taylor, Russell C.

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Doing nothing is the most tiresome job in the world because you cannot quit and rest.