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

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

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

Howells, William Dean

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Levin, James

People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do.

Cass, Lewis

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

James, William

But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.

Einstein, Albert

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

Aurelius, Marcus

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

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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I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.

Stone, W. Clement

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Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.

Rowan, Carl

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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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Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Durant, William J.

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

Iacocca, Lee

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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

18.

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Smiles, Samuel

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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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He who walks with the lame learns how to limp.

Proverb, Latin

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We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

Gorski, Nick

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We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Cooley, Charles Horton

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Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Jerome, St.

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

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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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If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

Shakespeare, William

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What we need is to use what we have.

Walsh, Basil S.

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I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.

Mann, Horace

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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Sandburg, Carl

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Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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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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Never confuse motion with action.

Franklin, Benjamin

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You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

Hubbard, Kin

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It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

Proverb, French

37.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

Proverb, African

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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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The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

Bronowski, Jacob

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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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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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In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Schopenhauer, Arthur

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Let us be tried by our actions.

Motto

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