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

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Rohn, Jim

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

Proverb

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

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Smith, Liz

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

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

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

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

Proverb, French

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No one will do it for you.

Stein, Ben

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

Proverb, English

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Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Bergson, Henri L.

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

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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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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.

Caddy, Eileen

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

Lincoln, Abraham

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Every action we take, everything we do, is either a victory or defeat in the struggle to become what we want to be.

Byrhhe, Anne

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

Mother Teresa

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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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Many are called but few get up.

Herford, Oliver

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

Dyer, Wayne

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Carlyle, Thomas

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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said,what dust do I raise!

Bacon, Francis

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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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I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

Keller, Helen

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

Gerstner, Lou

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The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Bushnell, Nolan

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When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Holtz, Lou

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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 people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.

Lu Xun

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He who considers too much will perform little.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.

Calderon de la Barca, Pedro

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

Batt, Al

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Action is the product of the qualities inherent in nature.

Bhagavad Gita

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The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Smith, Sydney

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A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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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Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Leap, and the net will appear.

Cameron, Julie

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

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Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.

Whitehead, Alfred North

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The greatest step is out the door.

Proverb, German

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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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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Hutcheson, Francis

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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